Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fergie

I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.

Fay Weldon

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.

Fay Weldon

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

Fanny Kemble

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

Fanny Burney

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

Fareed Zakaria

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Ezra Pound

The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

Ezra Pound

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Ezra Pound

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Taft Benson

Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.

Ezra Taft Benson

"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.

Eve Ensler

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Eugene Mirman

What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.

Francis Crick

To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.

Francesco Guicciardini

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

Francis Bacon

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Francis Bacon

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Francis Bacon

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Francis Bacon

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

Francis Bacon

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Francis Bacon

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Jennifer Capriati

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Jennifer Egan

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

Jeff Tweedy

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Jeff Tweedy

I know my lies are always wishes.

Jeff Tweedy

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

Jean Rostand

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Jean Rostand

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Jean de La Fontaine

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.