Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Dean Koontz

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Dean Koontz

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

Daniel Ellsberg

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

Daniel Ellsberg

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Daniel H. Wilson

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

Daniel Handler

Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

Daniel Handler

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Dan Barber

Clean plates don't lie.

Dan Aykroyd

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

Damon Lindelof

My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

Craig Kilborn

Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress.

Craig Ferguson

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Coco Chanel

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Coco Chanel

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Claire Messud

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

Elizabeth Scott

But I know a lie when I hear one.

Elizabeth Scott

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

Elizabeth Warren

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open,

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

Elizabeth I

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

Elizabeth I

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

Elias Canetti

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

B. C. Forbes

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

B. C. Forbes

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

Arthur Hugh Clough

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Helps

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Ben Stein

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

Ben Stein

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.