V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln -
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli -
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
D. A. Pennebaker
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
Gavin Newsom -
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
Felix Dennis -
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
Ian Mckellen -
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
Damien Rice -
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Randall Terry -
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne Dyer -
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers -
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
Lao Tzu -
Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
Deborah Ager -
You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.
Barbara Sukowa -
Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul