Lies Quotes - page 16

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit. (Tanith Lee)
Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence. View quote
Adrienne Rich
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished. View quote
Dean Koontz
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. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible. View quote
Carol Moseley Braun
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC-which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries-has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy ‘research'. View quote
Melanie Phillips
The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. View quote
Benjamin Graham
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. View quote
Aron Nimzowitsch
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. View quote
Thomas Keneally
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain. View quote
Edwin Muir
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. (Ken Wilber)
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing. View quote
Vernor Vinge