Lies Quotes
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Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
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I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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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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Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.
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There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
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Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
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Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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'Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power.'
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The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
