Lies Quotes
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On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.
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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.
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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
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In your love my salvation lies.
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It's such a big deal, the notion that these enslaved Africans had marriages and children... because therein lies our humanity, our capacity for love.
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Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.
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It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
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The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!
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That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
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Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
