Lies Quotes
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.
Al Gore
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Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?
Haddon W. Robinson
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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
Max Frisch
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As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.
Marilyn Monroe
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WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
Jemima Khan
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Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck
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Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.
Dalai Lama
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The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
Israel Zangwill
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Og Mandino
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It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
Christopher Isherwood
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'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.
R. Madhavan
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
Walt Disney
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The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.
Charles Seife
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
John Muir
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky
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My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
Patti Davis
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I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
Paul O'Neill
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque
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It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.
John Ruskin
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
H. Emilie Cady