Lies Quotes - page 7

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. (Joan Didion)
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. View quote
Joseph Campbell
...the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. View quote
Glenn Beck
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. View quote
George Herbert
He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. View quote
George Herbert
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies. (Leon Trotsky)
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. View quote
Paul Bowles
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. View quote
Tad Williams
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. View quote
Sun Tzu
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying. View quote
Mila Kunis
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. View quote
John Muir
The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. View quote
Phil Ochs
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. View quote
Gichin Funakoshi
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. (Plutarch)
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. View quote
Anatole France
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. View quote
John Arbuthnot
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. View quote
Helen Rowland