Lies Quotes
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The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Peter Greenaway
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.
Marianne Williamson
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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In your love my salvation lies.
Alexi Murdoch
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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.
James Wolcott
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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.
Steven Soderbergh
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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.
George Eliot
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Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
Christine Pelosi
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Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
Paul LePage
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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.
Philip Treacy
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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.
Pamala Oslie
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
Nachman of Breslov
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That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
Phil Lord
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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.
Aja Naomi King
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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.
M. Scott Peck
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
Jonathan Swift
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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!
Charles Dickens
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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.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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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