Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

Holly Hunter

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

Holly Black

I don't lie," I lied.

Holly Black

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Hermann Broch

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Hermann Hesse

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Henry Timrod

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Henrik Ibsen

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Henrik Ibsen

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Henrik Ibsen

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Heinrich Himmler

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

Hirohito

To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart,

Henry Ford

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Helen McCrory

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

Heinrich Heine

What lies lurk in kisses.

Heinrich Heine

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Hilary Mantel

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

Hilary Mantel

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilaire Belloc

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

Henry James

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

Johannes Brahms

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

Harlan Coben

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

Harlan Coben

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Greg Brown

Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Maeda

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

John Major

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.