Lies Quotes

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

My religion lies in my composition.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I keep reading between the lies.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

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.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.