Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Byron Katie

Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

Bryan Singer

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

Bryce Courtenay

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Cesar Romero

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Cesare Pavese

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.

Cesare Pavese

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

Cesare Pavese

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cary Elwes

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Caroline B. Cooney

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

Caroline Kennedy

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

Carolina Herrera

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Camilla Luddington

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

Caitlin Thomas

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

Cal Thomas

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

Bryan Robson

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.

Bryan Clay

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

Bryan Procter

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.

Cathy Freeman

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Catherynne M. Valente

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

William Shakespeare

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

William Shakespeare

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

William Shakespeare

Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

William Shakespeare

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

William Shakespeare

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

William Shakespeare

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.