Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions...

Audre Lorde

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Deb Caletti

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Bernard Baruch

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Cheryl Strayed

The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

Charlie Munger

Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.

Charles Francis Richter

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Alain Prost

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Bette Midler

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Chauncey Billups

It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.

Jennifer Haigh

Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.

David Nieves

This first one is a turtle. He is 6 years old. He thinks you are scary. ... So we have to make sure we don't scare him.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charlie Munger

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Charles Manson

I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.

Bill Ayers

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?