Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry Ford

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

Matsuo Basho

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Mary Wesley

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Patricia Hewitt

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Patricia Highsmith

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

Patricia Briggs

And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a knee on the bench she'd been sitting on and reached over the back to close her hand on Asil's wrist, which was lying across the back of the pew. He hissed in shock but didn't pull away. As she held him the scent of wilderness, of sickness, faded. He stared at her, the whites of his eyes showing brightly while his irises narrowed to small bands around his black pupil. "Omega," he whispered, his breath coming harshly.

Patricia Briggs

When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

Patricia Briggs

See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

Pat Paulsen

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

Pat Paulsen

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Pat Paulsen

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

Pablo Neruda

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Plato

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Plautus

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Plato

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Plato

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Plato

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Philip Wylie

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Philip Larkin

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Paula Jones

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Fox

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

Paula Abdul

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Paula Abdul

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Paul Weller

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

Martin Schulz

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

Martin Rees

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

Lee Child

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.