Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanislaw Lem

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris , is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Stanislaw Lem

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Spencer Johnson

The biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself.

Spider Robinson

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Sigrid Undset

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Sigmund Freud

Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

Sigmund Freud

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Shirley Jackson

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

Shirley Hazzard

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Shakira

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.

Shakira

My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

Shahrukh Khan

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

Shakti Gawain

In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

Scott Turow

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

Steven Milloy

America's strength lies not in its one-ness, but in its diversity of beliefs and efforts. And it will take all our strength in the coming years to combat global warming alarmism and to keep America from falling into the totalitarian green abyss.

Steven Moffat

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

Steven Moffat

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

Steven Pressfield

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Steven Pressfield

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Steven Morrissey

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Steven Morrissey

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

Steven Chu

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Steven Pinker

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.

Susan Hill

Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

Susan L. Taylor

When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie.

Summer Glau

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

Sun Myung Moon

So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

Sun Myung Moon

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

Sun Tzu

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

Sun Tzu

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.