Ernest Hemingway Quotes

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Ernest Hemingway

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Single
  • Human

• My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Drawing
  • Now
  • Sure

• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Actor
  • FBI

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • True
  • Happy

• Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Drink

• It just amazes me every time I have a debate with the ACLU on this. What would you want, to have innocent names made public?

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • Time
  • Innocent
  • Debate

• A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Person

• People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.

  

  Killer Mike
  • Problem
  • Cities
  • Pushing

• If you talk about big trends at Disney, these movies generally are generated by directors or directorial teams pitching ideas to John Lasseter.

  

  John Musker
  • Team
  • Ideas
  • Bigs

• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  

  Wendy Mass
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • World
  • Feels
  • Humans

• A big lie is more plausible than truth.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Lying
  • Bigs
  • Plausible