Lies Quotes - page 14

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most intimate enemies. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The beauty of physics lies in the extent to which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity. View quote
Melvin Schwartz
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. View quote
Edward Sapir
There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies, and lies I never told it all. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Swindon. What will History say? Burgoyne. History, sir, will tell lies, as usual. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me. View quote
Billy Joel
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. (Maya Angelou)
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. View quote
Alexander Berkman
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. View quote
Paul Bourget
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies. View quote
Cesare Pavese
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. View quote
Cesare Pavese
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. View quote
Stephen Crane
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies. View quote
John le Carré
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. (John Dryden)
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits. View quote
Subhas Chandra Bose
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy