Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Joe Wright

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

Joe Maddon

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Joe Manganiello

We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

Joe Lieberman

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Joaquin Miller

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

Joaquin Miller

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Joanne Harris

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Jo Nesbo

Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.

Jimmy Carter

I will never lie to you.

Jimmy Carter

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

John C. Maxwell

You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. When their work lies within their natural gifting and strengths, leaders experience the greatest return in productivity and contentment. Life is too short to live in the comfort zone, where growing and accomplishing and achieving your potential takes a back seat. I suggest you refocus if the comfort zone is your leadership priority.

John C. Maxwell

If you're lying, you're lying.

John C. Maxwell

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

Mahatma Gandhi

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

James Toback

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

James Taylor

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

James Thurber

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

James Stephens

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

James Sinegal

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

James Surowiecki

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

James Surowiecki

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

James Patterson

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

James Nesbitt

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

James Montgomery

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

James McBride

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

James Macdonald

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

James Madison

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Novak Djokovic

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.