Lies Quotes
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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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.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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They may be lies But say that we'll be alright If we stay tonight
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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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.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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Here lies James Quinn. Deign, reader, to be taught,Whate’er thy strength of body, force of thought,In Nature’s happiest mould however cast,To this complexion thou must come at last.
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Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
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When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire ... and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;Breath's a ware that will not keep.Up, lad: when the journey's overThere'll be time enough to sleep.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
