Famous Quotes & Sayings

Puff Daddy

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

Julian Barnes

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Maggie Stiefvater

Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and she couldn't back down now. "Because I know you're going to think I feel bad about it, and I don't." "All right." "Because I'm not pretty. Not in the way Aglionby boys seem to lie." "I go to Aglionby," Adam said. Adam did not seem to go to Aglinoby like other boys went to Aglionby. "I think you're pretty," he said.

Maggie Stiefvater

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.

Maggie Stiefvater

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

Maggie Stiefvater

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

Maggie Stiefvater

This car was a very pretty lie.

Maggie Stiefvater

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.

Madame de Stael

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Madame de Stael

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Lynn Fontanne

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Haruki Murakami

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Haruki Murakami

I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

Haruki Murakami

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

Haruki Murakami

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.

Harlan Coben

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

Harlan Coben

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Greg Brown

Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

Grantland Rice

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Gore Verbinski

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Gordon Strachan

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Gordon Lightfoot

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

John Dryden

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

John Dryden

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.