Lies Quotes - page 21

'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined. (Arthur C. Clarke)
But a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. View quote
Warren Buffett
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation... View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies. View quote
Filipp Golikov
Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow. View quote
Dick Cheney
Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. View quote
Martha Graham
I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches. View quote
Herman Melville
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. View quote
Herman Melville
A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form. (Stendhal)
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. View quote
Robert Collier
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. View quote
Chauncey Depew
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. View quote
Louis Brandeis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. View quote
E. W. Howe
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. (Victor Hugo)
Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
The universe doesn't have secrets,” I said cynically, "only lies and swindles. View quote
George Alec Effinger
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses. View quote
Samuel Youd
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. View quote
Peter Greenaway