Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tullian Tchividjian

The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.

Tupac Shakur

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Tupac Shakur

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Tupac Shakur

One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

Tupac Shakur

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Tupac Shakur

Real eyes, realize, real lies..

Saul Bellow

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

Sarah Dessen

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

Sarah Dessen

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

Sarah Dessen

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.