Lies Quotes
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I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
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Then lies him down the lubber fiend,And stretched out all the chimney's length,Basks at the fire his hairy strength.
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The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
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'‘Not everything that walks is a man,’' said the boulder conversationally, '‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.'
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.
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Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
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I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
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The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.
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We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
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The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
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My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
