Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willa Cather

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Willa Cather

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

Willa Cather

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Will Smith

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

Warren Ellis

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

Vincent Van Gogh

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Vincent Van Gogh

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Vladimir Lenin

In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

Wayne Dyer

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Walter de La Mare

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

Walter de La Mare

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

Walter de La Mare

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

Walter Bagehot

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Walter Benjamin

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Walter Benjamin

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Virginia Woolf

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them ...

Virginia Woolf

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Virginia Woolf

Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

Virginia Woolf

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

William Blake

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

William Blake

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Wendy Wasserstein

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

Wernher von Braun

We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

Werner Heisenberg

Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.

Werner Erhard

The Truth, believed, is a lie.

Werner Erhard

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.

Werner Herzog

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

Weegee

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

Wayne Rooney

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

Walid Jumblatt

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Walker Percy

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Wallace Stegner

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.