Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sappho

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

Sappho

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

Sappho

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

Samuel Smiles

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

William Ellery Channing

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

William Ellery Channing

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

William Faulkner

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

William Faulkner

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it...

William Faulkner

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Richard M. Nixon

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Richard M. Nixon

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

Richard M. Nixon

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Raymond E. Feist

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Richard Schickel

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Russo

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Richard Flanagan

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Richard Flanagan

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Richard Gere

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Rich Lowry

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

Robert Byrd

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

Rob Andrew

I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

Riz Ahmed

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

River Phoenix

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

Richard Price

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

Richard Pryor

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

Richard Kelly

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

Tucker Max

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

Tullian Tchividjian

The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.

Tupac Shakur

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Tupac Shakur

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Tupac Shakur

One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

Tupac Shakur

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.