Lies Quotes

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

People for the most part can smell lies.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.