Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Russinovich

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.

Marina and the Diamonds

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Marina Warner

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

Marina Abramovic

What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

Maria Montessori

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

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.

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.