Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Francis Quarles

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

Francis Quarles

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Ian Mcewan

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

Ian Mcewan

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.

Ian Mcewan

It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?

Ian Mcewan

The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.

Hugh MacDiarmid

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

Hugh Laurie

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Hugh Jackman

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Horace

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

Horace Mann

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.

Homer

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Homer

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

Homer

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Homer

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

Homer

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Huston Smith

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Hunter S. Thompson

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Humphrey Carpenter

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.

Hudson Taylor

It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.

Hudson Taylor

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Hudson Taylor

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

Howard Schultz

In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.

Howard Carter

As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.

Honore de Balzac

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Honore de Balzac

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Honore de Balzac

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Honore de Balzac

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.