Lies Quotes

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Habit

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Attitude
  • Lies

• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Lies
  • Meaning
  • Slander

• Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Evil
  • Off

• Poetry lies its way to the truth.

  

  John Ciardi
  • Truth
  • Poetry
  • Lies

• To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Time
  • Look
  • Tomorrow

• My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.

  

  Don King
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Tears

• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Fight
  • Epitaph
  • Deceased

• The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Path
  • Opening
  • Portal

• The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Morality

• The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Lies

• Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Man
  • Summer
  • Winter

• To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

  

  Confucius
  • Wisdom
  • Lies
  • Knows

• The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptianheroes, lies inlives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions.

  

  Frank O'Hara
  • America
  • Cool
  • Lies

• That subtle knot which makes us man: So must pure lovers' souls descend T' affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  

  John Donne
  • Great
  • May
  • Prince

• Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • Help
  • Lie

• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

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