Lies Quotes
-
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
-
My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
-
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
-
The value of actions lies in their timing.
-
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
-
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
-
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
-
The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
-
My brother does a series of movies called 'The Purge,' and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he'll be starring in the second season of 'Secrets and Lies.' We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we've been since day one. That's the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.
-
It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
-
The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.
-
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
-
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.
-
The comedy is always the same. In the first act the hero imagines a place where happiness exists. In the second he strives towards that goal. In the third he comes up short or what amounts to the same thing he achieves his goal only to find that happiness lies a little further down the road.
-
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
-
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
-
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
-
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.
-
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.
-
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
-
Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.
-
The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
-
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
-
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
