Lie Quotes
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.Eric Anderson
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.Anwar el - Sadat
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.William S. Burroughs
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.Martin Luthe
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.W. Wirt
J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,It will fluctuate.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.Horace Mann
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.W. L. George
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
Believing where we cannot prove.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.Donald Culross Peattie
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.The Divine Pymande
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.Homer, The Odyssey
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.D. H. Lawrence
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".