Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan McCafferty

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Megan McCafferty

And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

Meat Loaf

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

Max Lucado

When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

May Sarton

O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.

May Sarton

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

Max Eastman

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Max Greenfield

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Maureen Johnson

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

Maureen Johnson

I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

Matthew Sweet

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

Matthew Scully

The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life. We create these animals for our profit and pleasure, playing with their genes, violating their dignity as living creatures, forcing them to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, turning pens into penitentiaries and frustrating their every desire except what is needed to keep them breathing and breeding. And then we complain about the smell.

Matthew Lesko

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Matt Ridley

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

Maya Angelou

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

Maya Angelou

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Mattie Stepanek

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Matthieu Ricard

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Marianne Williamson

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

Marianne Williamson

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

Marianne Williamson

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Mark Lawrence

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

Mark Lawrence

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Mark Lawrence

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

Mario Andretti

I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

Michael Herr

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Michael Haneke

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

Michael Haneke

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Michael C. Hall

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

Meles Zenawi

The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

Mason Cooley

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.