Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Teasdale

Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.

Samuel Rutherford

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Samuel Johnson

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Samuel Johnson

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

Samuel Johnson

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

Samuel Johnson

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

Samuel Johnson

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Robert Greene

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Robert Baden-Powell

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

Robert Anton Wilson

We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

Rob Mariano

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Ricki Lake

I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!

Ricky Nelson

She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

Richard M. Nixon

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Richard M. Nixon

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

Richard M. Nixon

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Raymond E. Feist

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Richard Schickel

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Russo

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Richard Flanagan

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Richard Flanagan

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Richard Gere

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Rich Lowry

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

Robert Byrd

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

Rob Andrew

I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

Riz Ahmed

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

River Phoenix

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

Richard Price

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

Richard Pryor

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

Richard Kelly

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

Tucker Max

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.