Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tayari Jones

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Tavi Gevinson

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

Taraji P. Henson

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Tara Brach

Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Tara Brach

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Talulah Riley

It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene...not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under the sheets. And he was incredibly sort of vibrant and outgoing, but then he suddenly got very, like, 'I'm engaged and I'm getting married!' And I was, 'Okay, that's good. I just won't be touching you, then!'

Tallulah Bankhead

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

Suzy Kassem

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

Suzy Kassem

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Suzy Kassem

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Suzy Kassem

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

Suzy Kassem

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

Swami Vivekananda

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

Swami Vivekananda

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

Swami Vivekananda

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Swami Vivekananda

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Swami Vivekananda

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

Swami Vivekananda

Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Tony Robbins

I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.

Tony Robbins

If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.

The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.

Tony Benn

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

Tony Blair

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

Tony Blair

How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.

Sinead O'Connor

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

Simone de Beauvoir

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.

Simone de Beauvoir

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

Simone de Beauvoir

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

Simone Weil

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Simone Weil

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.