Lie Quotes

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

Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cathe

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have - Nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that? s all you have.

James Dean

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Washington Irving

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

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

Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Spanish Prove

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben - Gurion

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen