Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Mark Lawrence

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

Mark Lawrence

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Mark Lawrence

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

Mario Andretti

I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

Michael Herr

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Michael Haneke

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

Michael Haneke

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

Frank Ocean

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Frank Ocean

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

Frank O'Hara

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Francois Rabelais

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

Francois Rabelais

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Christopher Hitchens

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Dawson

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

Christine Pelosi

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Chris Rock

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Chris Rock

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.

Chris Rock

Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you can’t get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can’t get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative!

Chris Matthews

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Chris Matthews

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

Chris Hedges

I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.

Germaine Greer

The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.

Gertrude Stein

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

Gerard Way

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

Havelock Ellis

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Harry Hopkins

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

Harry Frankfurt

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry Frankfurt

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Harry Frankfurt

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...