Lies Quotes - page 20

Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe. (William Somervile)
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Oh, what lies there are in kisses. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. View quote
Heinrich Heine
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. View quote
Roger Scruton
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. View quote
Stephen Spender
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves. View quote
Vera Brittain
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest-compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. View quote
William Wordsworth
The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster - that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys. View quote
Henry Adams
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research. View quote
Virginia Foxx
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence. View quote
Confucius
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. View quote
Confucius
If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer. View quote
Lenny Bruce
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. View quote
Terry Pratchett
A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery. View quote
Ashraf Dehghani
To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy but when the intelligence lies to Congress how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business. (Rand Paul)
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. View quote
Edgar Degas
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. View quote
Diane Ackerman
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. View quote
Octavio Paz
Art is the most beautiful of all lies. View quote
Claude Debussy