Lies Quotes
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
Gaston Bachelard
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
Brian K. Vaughan
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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
Brendan Coyle
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
Franz Kafka
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson
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All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
I. F. Stone
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
Octave Mirbeau
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It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain
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The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
Jeffrey Zeldman
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No talent lies in my dancing.
Emilia Clarke
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They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.
Anthony Quinn
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown
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Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
Boyle Roche
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This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies
Tuomas Holopainen Nightwish
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce
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With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.
Anne Sexton
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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
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All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
Mauricio Macri
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus, that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson
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The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
D. A. Carson
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I don't like to tell lies.
Hal Ashby
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We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
Alva Myrdal