Lie Quotes - page 13

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought. (Bertrand Russell)
While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend. View quote
Justin Bieber
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. View quote
Albert Camus
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. View quote
A. E. Housman
The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. View quote
A. E. Housman
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Men of the eleventh! the enemy say we are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call on you to give the lie to that slander. Charge! View quote
Winfield Scott
I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender. (Jackson Browne)
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
My dear fellow citizens, For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you. View quote
Václav Havel
Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see. View quote
Nikki Sixx
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore. View quote
Pat Robertson
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. View quote
Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? View quote
Thomas Mann
That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us. View quote
José Saramago
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. (Steven Pressfield)
Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff. View quote
Adrian Mitchell
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. View quote
Francis Bacon
No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it. View quote
T. B. Joshua
Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. View quote
John Muir