Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

Orson Scott Card

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

Robert Kiyosaki

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Anna Jameson

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Anna Jameson

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Adlai Stevenson

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Bernie Sanders

I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.

Stephen Jay Gould

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

Stephen Jay Gould

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -or any honest intellectual inquiry.

Stephen Jay Gould

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.

Jim Tressel

There he is, lying there. He was so motionless, talking the whole time.

The thing was just lying there for me to put in.

Kirk Franklin

Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.

Kirk Douglas

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

Kim Wilde

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

Kim Stanley Robinson

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Kim Cattrall

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Kevin Drum

Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

Kevin Costner

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

Kenneth Rexroth

Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

Kenneth Rexroth

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Ken Jeong

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

Kathleen Norris

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Karl Marx

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

Julia Gillard

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Julia Cameron

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

Julia Cameron

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.