Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

Robert Kiyosaki

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Sophie Kinsella

I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

Sophocles

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

Sophocles

False words do not bring forth fruit.

Sophocles

A lie never lives to be old.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Stephen Leacock

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Stephen Leacock

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

Stephen Leacock

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Stephen King

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Stephen King

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

Scott Westerfeld

It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.

Scott Westerfeld

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

Scott Adams

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

Ray Stevens

There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Manzarek

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

Ray Comfort

How much do I have to hate homosexuals to lie to them about what the Bible says?

Ray Davies

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Randy Alcorn

We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.

Rajneesh

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

Rajneesh

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Rajneesh

The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole mystery lies. It is in your surrender of the ego that the whole search comes to an authentic point. It is in putting your mind aside. That is what sannyas is: an authentic discipleship. It means putting your mind aside. You have lived according to your mind up to now. If that is fulfilling, then there is no need for anybody to become a sannyasin.

Thomas Jefferson

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Thomas Jefferson

It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.

Thomas Jefferson

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Thomas Jefferson

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

Robert Herjavec

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

Robert Higgs

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Rick Pitino

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Rick Pitino

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Rick Santorum

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.