Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alan Cumming

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out

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.

One speck within vast star-space lying Awoke, arose, resumed its clothing, And crawled another day toward dying.

Elizabeth Bowen

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Elizabeth Bowen

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

Elizabeth Bowen

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

Elinor Wylie

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

Eliot Spitzer

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Elfriede Jelinek

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Elena Kagan

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.