Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Dryden

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

John Mayer

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

John Maeda

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

John Major

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

John Lothrop Motley

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lydon

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die...

John Lydon

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

John Locke

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

John Locke

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

John Locke

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.

John Locke

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

John Lennon

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

John Lennon

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

John Lancaster Spalding

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

John Lancaster Spalding

To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

John le Carre

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

John le Carre

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

John le Carre

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

John Knox

Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

John Barrowman

I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

John Banville

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

Justin Timberlake

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

Julie Bowen

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

Julie Burchill

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Judith Orloff

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

Judith Orloff

Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.

Judith McNaught

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Josh Hartnett

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Katherine Dunn

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Joyce Meyer

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

Joyce Meyer

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.