Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sally Phillips

I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

Sacha Guitry

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Saadi

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Ruth Rendell

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

Rumi

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Rumi

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

Roy Blount, Jr.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Roy H. Williams

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Roger Zelazny

You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.

Roger Zelazny

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

Roland Barthes

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Susan Orlean

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Susan Cain

Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

Studs Terkel

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

Stuart Wilde

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

Storm Jameson

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Storm Jameson

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

Storm Jameson

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

Storm Jameson

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

Storm Jameson

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...

Storm Jameson

all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...

Stewart Udall

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Stevie Smith

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

Stevie Smith

If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

Solon

Poets tell many lies.

Solon

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

Steve Irwin

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

Steve Irwin

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Steve Elmendorf

Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled.

Steve Earle

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

Stephen Spender

You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.