Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Kurt Vonnegut

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

Kurt Vonnegut

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Kurt Vonnegut

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Kurt Vonnegut

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Mark Cuban

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

Mark Cuban

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.

Charles Wesley

The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the Lord;' it was not written by bad men because they would not write about doing good duty, while condemning sin, and themselves to hell; thus, it must be written by divine inspiration

Charles Lyell

Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

Charles Lindbergh

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Charles Krauthammer

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

Aisha Tyler

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

Aileen Wuornos

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

Ai Weiwei

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

Ai Weiwei

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Bob Woodward

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Bob Woodward

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

Bob Woodward

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Bob Mould

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

Billy Gibbons

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Billy Joel

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

Billy Joel

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

Bill Johnson

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

Bill Johnson

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Bill Johnson

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Betty White

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

Betty White

I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?

Betty White

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.