Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chris Carter

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

Chris Bohjalian

Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.

Chris Bohjalian

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

Chinua Achebe

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Chinua Achebe

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

China Machado

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

Chief Joseph

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

Cherrelle

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Chely Wright

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.