Lie Quotes

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

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.

Louis D. Brandeis

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

I believe the destiny of your generation - And your nation - Is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles, Ajax

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luthe

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko