Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Julio Franco

I'd be lying to you if I said we didn't talk about it, but it's over. Things went smoothly yesterday. It'll be the same thing today.

I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't.

Andy Pettitte

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.

I'd be lying if I said otherwise. This one's going to be special.

I'd be lying if I said I was pleased with him,

Jason Spezza

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about it a bit.

Tom Smith

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a pang. What's done is done but you always have regrets.

I'd be lying by saying that we want anything else. With the year we've had you have to feel like we have a chance.

Ben Elton

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

Ben Folds

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

Barry Long

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Carl Sandburg

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

C. S. Lewis

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

C. S. Lewis

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

C. S. Lewis

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

C. S. Lewis

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

C. S. Lewis

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

C. S. Lewis

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

C. S. Lewis

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Calvin Coolidge

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.

Calvin Coolidge

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

Burt Rutan

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

Busy Philipps

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Bryant H. McGill

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Carson McCullers

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.

Carol Gilligan

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Carla Bruni

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

Carl von Clausewitz

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

Alan Dean Foster

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.