Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.

John Adams

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

Jack Welch

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

Elizabeth Smart

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Eric Idle

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

Eric Hoffer

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Eric Hoffer

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Eric Hoffer

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Bolling

Republicans didn't lie to the American people about whether there were classified e-mails on that server and Republicans didn't tell families of Americans killed in Benghazi that a video was to blame for their murders. There isn't a vast right-wing conspiracy, Madam Secretary. Just like there wasn't one back in 1998.

Eric Bolling

I think it's important here to keep something in mind. I mean, when you're looking at last night and you see Matt Lauer unable to tell [Donald Trump], "Hey, you know what? You're lying here."

Eric Bana

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I'd love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I'm in no rush.

Emmylou Harris

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

James Cash Penney

In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires.

James Altucher

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

Jacques Lacan

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Jacques Maritain

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Friedrich Schiller

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Friedrich Schiller

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

Friedrich Schiller

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Frederick Marryat

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Frederick Marryat

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

Jon Foreman

I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.

Johnnie Cochran

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

Johnny Carson

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

Johnny Carson

Only lie about the future.

Luigi Pirandello

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.