Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The secret of war lies in the communications.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit... So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

Og Mandino

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

Og Mandino

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

Og Mandino

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Og Mandino

True happiness lies within you.

Norodom Sihanouk

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Norman Spinrad

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Norman Mailer

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Norman Mailer

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Geisler

If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly.

Norman Geisler

Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

Os Guinness

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.

Orson Welles

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Orlando Hernandez

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

Origen

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

Oriana Fallaci

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Oriana Fallaci

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Orhan Pamuk

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Sacks

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Olga Korbut

This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

Octave Mirbeau

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.