Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

Akhenaton

The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

Chris Bohjalian

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

Chinua Achebe

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

China Machado

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

Edward Gibbon

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.

Edward Gibbon

Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.

David Hilbert

Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

David Hume

Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.

David Hume

Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?

David Dunn

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

David Duchovny

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

Astrid Lindgren

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

Arthur Rimbaud

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

Arthur Rimbaud

To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

Arnold J. Toynbee

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

Arnold Palmer

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

Antonin Artaud

The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

Denis Waitley

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.

William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Bill O'Reilly

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

Bill Moyers

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography : lies , distortions, and half-truths half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

Bertrand Piccard

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Bernard Baruch

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.

Bernard Baruch

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Cat Deeley

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!