Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.

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.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

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.

Grantland Rice

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Gore Verbinski

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Gordon Strachan

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Gordon Lightfoot

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

John Dryden

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

John Dryden

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

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 Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

John Mayer

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

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.

John Lothrop Motley

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lydon

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die...

John Lydon

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.