Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Alafair Burke

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Alain de Botton

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Alain de Botton

Year-end financial statements ... express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

Alain de Botton

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

Al Davis

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

Al Davis

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Al Davis

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

Al Franken

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

Al Franken

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Charles R. Swindoll

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

Charles Curtis

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Charles Churchill

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Charles Churchill

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Charles Churchill

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.

Charles Darwin

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality.

Charles Darwin

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

Brenda Blethyn

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

Bobby Hull

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

Bobby Darin

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

Bobby Darin

My entire life has been a lie.

Barry Hannah

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

Barbara Cook

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Artie Lange

I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Aristophanes

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophanes

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Aphra Behn

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Bruce Jenner

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.