Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right.

Arthur C. Clarke

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arundhati Roy

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Derrick Bell

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Billy Carter

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Brian Helgeland

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.