Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Epictetus

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

Epictetus

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Emily Carr

The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

Emily Bronte

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Emily Dickinson

Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

Emily Dickinson

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

Emily Dickinson

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

Elliott Smith

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

Elaine Stritch

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

Elaine Stritch

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

Edward T. Hall

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Holly Black

I don't lie," I lied.

Holly Black

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Holly Black

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Holly Black

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

Hermann Broch

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Hermann Hesse

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Hermann Hesse

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Henry Timrod

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

Henry Timrod

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

Henry Timrod

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

Henry Vaughan

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.