Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Joseph Addison

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Joseph Addison

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Jose Rizal

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Jose Saramago

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.

Jose Gonzalez

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

Jorge Luis Borges

You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.

Jonathan Stroud

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

Jonathan Swift

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

Jonathan Swift

A lie is an excuse guarded

Kevin Rudd

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

Keith Waterhouse

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

Kelley Armstrong

He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam.

Kelley Armstrong

Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I’m still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it’s no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, “Thank God that’s not me”.

Kelley Armstrong

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Joe Wright

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

Joe Maddon

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Joe Manganiello

We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

Joe Lieberman

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Joaquin Miller

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

Joaquin Miller

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Joanne Harris

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Jo Nesbo

Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.