Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Carlos Fuentes

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

Agnes Macphail

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Agnes Repplier

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Alan Sugar

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

Charlotte Bronte

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

Charlotte Bronte

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Charles Dudley Warner

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Charles de Lint

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Charlotte Church

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

Charlize Theron

People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.

Charlize Theron

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

Charles Lamb

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

Charles Baudelaire

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Chad Jones

What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would believe that the PSC order isn't in their best interest.

Charlie Munger

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

Charles M. Blow

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Charles Manson

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

Charles Horton Cooley

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

Bob Saget

You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.

Bill Maher

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

William Shakespeare

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Bryce Courtenay

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Cesar Romero

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Cesare Pavese

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

Caroline B. Cooney

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

Carolina Herrera

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

Cathy Freeman

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Carl Jung

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Carl Jung

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

Carl Jung

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.