We have collected the best Lies Quotes by famous authors including Ernestine Rose, Ben Daniels, John Sexton, Kim Cattrall, Jello Biafra and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose
Theatre is where my passion lies – I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.
Ben Daniels
I really don’t have any secrets. I’ve never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
John Sexton
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Jello Biafra
I’ve made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I’m no longer interested in that subject – which is a wonderful relief.
Ira Sachs
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Lucy Hale
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
John T. Flynn
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I’ve made it.
Bong Joon-ho
It’s absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Peter Garrett
What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
I often ask myself, ‘Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?’ The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O’Leary
The true exercise of freedom is – cannily and wisely and with grace – to move inside what space confines – and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A. S. Byatt
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Edward Snowden
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
I’m very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I’ll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that’s where my heart lies.
Marc Platt
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
B. R. Ambedkar
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.
Fanny Kemble
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
David Copperfield
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
Enid Blyton
One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That’s where my heart lies.
Karin Fossum
Do not use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent native word ‘lies.’
Henrik Ibsen
Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
Glen Campbell
I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy Angeleno uniform, so to speak. But for my role on ‘Suits,’ I’m dressed in Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, and Prada almost every day. And therein lies the difference. For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
Meghan Markle
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one’s got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It’s never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn’t mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
Antony Beevor
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
I’m not one of those actors who lies about their age.
Sara Ramirez
The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.
Yuval Noah Harari
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
James E. Faust
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who’s in it for himself, who can’t do anything on his own. He’s not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.
Rush Limbaugh
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
Prem Rawat
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement – it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Malcolm Wallop
I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.
Regina King
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Paul Eldridge
Whether you’re driving it short or you drive it far, you got to be in the fairway because the rough’s brutal, and if you get out of the rough into some of these bunkers, you can get some funky lies.
Dustin Johnson
India is where part of my heart lies. Everytime I come back home, I gorge on paranthas and dosas and it makes me happy. I simply love Indian food.
Shriya Saran
As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.
Pat Paulsen
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that’s 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It’s one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth’s crust.
Antony Gormley
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
Emile Zola
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.
Douglas Fairbanks
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson’s biggest deception yet – worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.
Ed Davey
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus
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.
Charlotte Church
My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on ‘What Lies Beneath’ and ‘Castaway’ as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.
Jeff Baena
No lies, just love.
Conor Oberst
I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
Kit Harington
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Milan Kundera
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
Polykarp Kusch
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus
That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.
Willie Stargell
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Phil Ochs
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Tommy Chong
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
Bernard Tschumi
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen Covey
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
You lie when you’re a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you’re younger and you – in your mind – think that you’re so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it’s what you should do.
Shay Mitchell
Normcore doesn’t equal wearing the first pair of jeans and T-shirt from your wardrobe. Behind dressing easy, lies a precise selection.
Masaba Gupta
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
James L. Buckley
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?
Wislawa Szymborska
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
Charlotte Bunch
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Chief Joseph
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless – why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
Sara Pascoe
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.
Nikolai Gogol
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard Harding Davis
The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
Geraldo Rivera
My heart really lies in my jewelry line, Archangel. I have really enjoyed watching the company go from nothing and slowly building it year by year, and getting into one store, then another store. And then I’ll see someone wearing a piece of it on the streets, and it’s all very exciting.
Brody Jenner
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.
Joe Wilson
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
Bobby Locke
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
Stanley Baldwin
The law is agnostic about truth. It’s very skeptical of ultimate truth. That’s why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
Alan Dershowitz
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
Bill Gross
And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
Phil Ochs
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That’s all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It’s that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that’s where our performance lies, that’s what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D’Onofrio
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.
Boy George
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats
‘Ulysses’ is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.
Tom Paulin
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
Kanye West
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
Brenda Blethyn
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
Noam Chomsky
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn
My wife says that my tombstone will read, ‘Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.’ So I think that’s probably what I’ll be remembered for.
Tom Bosley
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
John le Carre
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
Sharon Tate
And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Fran Drescher
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.
Anne Waldman
My sex appeal lies in suits and ties, but my body is femme.
Rain Dove
A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Matthew Lesko
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Oswald Spengler
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
Kgalema Motlanthe
I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
Federico Fellini
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘True Lies’, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
Eliza Dushku
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman
It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, ‘Here lies Hikaru Sulu,’ and in very tiny letters, ‘aka George Takei.’ I don’t protest the inevitable.
George Takei
All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
John Muir
The challenge – and much of the fun – of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
Edward M. Lerner
People don’t throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
Russell Brand
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry St. John
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
Mark McKinnon
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier
I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it’s a natural step into acting.
Anthony Geary
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world’s largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
Henry Paulson
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown’s disguise.
Mark Akenside
There’s a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
Ken Robinson
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
One of the great advantages of cremation – apart from all sanitary conditions – lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.
Annie Besant
When I played ‘Survivor’, I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn’t sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
Jenna Morasca
It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
Taraji P. Henson
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.
Harry Johnston
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Magoo’s appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he’s not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
Jim Backus
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe
The average person tells a few white lies.
Zooey Deschanel
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
Thomas Fuller
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley
The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.
Pauley Perrette
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
Edie Falco
Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
Lyall Watson
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Terry McAuliffe
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.
Marie Rutkoski
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
Felix Dennis
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
Tyler Hamilton
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Willem de Kooning
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
Junipero Serra
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
The kids all knew me from Wayne’s World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
Tia Carrere
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
The secret of success in cinema lies in not just being talented but showcasing your talent to the audience. And, that happens only when you get the right films and directors.
D. Imman
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.
Kenneth Copeland
Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man’s only promise.
Leo Buscaglia
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas de Quincey
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridge
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor W. Adorno
You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
Rudolf Steiner
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust
There is in every woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
Yehuda Berg
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Guru Nanak
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
Luis Bunuel
There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
Al Franken
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.
Bob Geldof
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator’s hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
Lucy Larcom
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Francis Quarles
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Jordan Peterson
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
Mason Cooley
You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it – because that way lies madness – but rather because you believe in it.
John Simm
I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
Gillian Anderson
After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson
‘Tanu Weds Manu’s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.
R. Madhavan
The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.
Edward McKendree Bounds
NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
Buzz Aldrin
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Gunter Grass
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
Simon Greenleaf
I really like my first movie a lot, ‘Kicking and Screaming.’ I think it’s a – I’m very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn’t the – it wasn’t ‘Citizen Kane’ right out of the box, you know? It wasn’t ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape.’
Noah Baumbach
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Albert Pike
India’s engagement with the ASEAN region lies in the clarity of the principles that we share.
Sushma Swaraj
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Louis Sullivan
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan
Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film’s future.
Rachel Miner
When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
Ram Dass
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
James Forrestal
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Ernest Holmes
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.
William Barr
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
George A. Smith
We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Helen Rowland
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
I don’t like to tell lies.
Hal Ashby
If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill
The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.
Tsai Ing-wen
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
Safak Pavey
The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted – and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.
David Petraeus
Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don’t care, let’s forget about courts, and we’ll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
Ken Starr
As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
David Bailey
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself – and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good – but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
Rachel Cusk
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We’ve made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
Pete Postlethwaite
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson II
I don’t feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don’t like it, it’s OK.
Betty Wright
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.
Hesiod
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.
Henning Mankell
It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don’t be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.
Tippi Hedren
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
I’ve made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I’d love to do theater.
Brenda Blethyn
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.
Ani DiFranco
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Marty Meehan
I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn’t expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
Brenda Blethyn
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Gunter Grass
I’ve had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.
Guillaume Canet
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Zachary Quinto
I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
Sally Phillips
Thankfully, roads have opened that could lead us out of this Brexit crisis. One obvious solution, which is fast gaining support, is to hand the issue back to the country. I would add that we also need formally to take no deal Brexit off the table, because that way lies chaos and disaster.
Dominic Grieve
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson
Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.
Rush Limbaugh
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin Olsen
It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I’ve met during my career. That’s where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.
Franz Beckenbauer
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
Russell M. Nelson
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
Alex Shoumatoff
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck
When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, ‘Obama lies; freedom dies.’ She’s referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you’re sick.
Richard Trumka
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
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lech Walesa
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
Robert Lanza
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
There’s so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They’re numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.
Big Boi
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king’s friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
Jack Cade
You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E. W. Howe
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains.
Frances Hesselbein
Al Jazeera has abandoned even the semblance of a credible media outlet, and it broadcasts – both within Gaza and outside it, to the world – anti-Semitic incitement, lies, provocation, and encouragement to terrorists.
Avigdor Lieberman
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
Kim Barnouin
In life, if you don’t know the truth, then you can’t be free, because then you’ll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I’m not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
Nick Vujicic
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille
I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
Enrique Iglesias
Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music – art if you like – and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.
Varg Vikernes
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Bush
You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
Ato Essandoh
The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Jerry Saltz
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
Lewis B. Smedes
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying.
Mila Kunis
I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it’s different. You know, I’m not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
Zooey Deschanel
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
William S. Paley
If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm’s way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, ‘No, you don’t send our military into harm’s way with no legal justification.’
Katharine Gun
Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
Howard E. Koch
Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
Neymar
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
Maria Jeritza
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment’s shield against self-incrimination.
David K. Shipler
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they’re necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that’s dangerous and they’ll boomerang.
Richard Chamberlain
It’s such a big deal, the notion that these enslaved Africans had marriages and children… because therein lies our humanity, our capacity for love.
Aja Naomi King
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
Adam Osborne
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world’s purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don’t tap those markets, others will.
John Hoeven
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul
No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back.
Cindy Sheehan
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
Alan Dean Foster
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
Tony Campolo
The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
Jonathan Sacks
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
My son died for lies.
Cindy Sheehan
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
Sholom Aleichem
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
Barry Ritholtz
That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
David Byrne
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Epictetus
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick
One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.
Martin Jacques
We don’t suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
John Breaux
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you’re not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Luise Rainer
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do – they pay surveyors to take a look.
Christine Pelosi
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Paul Bloom
The test of any man lies in action.
Pindar
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
Junichiro Koizumi
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
No ideology better understands the need for enemies than neoconservatism, and when the cold war dramatically and unexpectedly ended, the way was prepared for the ‘Arab threat’ to emerge. ‘True Lies,’ the 1994 James Cameron comedy thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, duly served up the Arab villain Salim Abu Aziz.
Mark Fisher
I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
Ben Lovett
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don’t listen to those rules about face shape.
Philip Treacy
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
Juan Williams
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse
Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies – the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.
Binod Chaudhary
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
It’s hard to determine where lies culpability.
Roger Mahony
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel Ruiz
No talent lies in my dancing.
Emilia Clarke
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
Gunter Grass
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.
Ian Mckellen
Let’s use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people’s stories and histories.
Karen Armstrong
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
Thomas Moore
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
Michael Korda
The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.
Sun Yat-sen
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
Billy Gibbons
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Bill Owens
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Don Henley
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Charles Baudelaire
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
Angel Haze
The word ‘religion’ is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word ‘faith’. You either have faith, or you don’t have faith, or you have degrees of faith – and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You’re kind of in-between, or you’re on the fence.
Ridley Scott
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
Charles Spurgeon
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I’ve always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
Caroline Kennedy
I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warner
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it.
Louis L’Amour
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
Ami Bera
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey
The solution of this country’s problems lies in black hands.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was younger, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta’s daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
Meaghan Rath
As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
Aamir Khan
I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
Auberon Herbert
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.
Hale White
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.
Robin Marantz Henig
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
Grantland Rice
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Noam Chomsky
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Every summer I sail to a small island called Cavallo, which lies between Sardinia and Corsica.
Gino D’Acampo
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
Paula Abdul
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
Clay Shirky
I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
Ken Livingstone
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Jennifer Capriati
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
Boyle Roche
Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they’re on the positive side of things. It’s not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
Feist
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim
I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.
Aileen Wuornos
It’s a cliche, but it’s true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
Mark Gatiss
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It’s giving people new expectations. It’s allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you’ll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Roy H. Williams
When it comes to America’s economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country’s economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
Charlie Gonzalez
It’s true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
J. G. Ballard
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
Gary Zukav
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch
The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that’s beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.
Goran Persson
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson I
I haven’t died in a movie in a while,’The Departed,’ ‘Body of Lies,’ ‘Revolutionary Road,’ ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Inception.’ I guess I did die in ‘The Departed.’
Leonardo DiCaprio
People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It’s his use of language. The music of the words works on your subconscious. You end up deeply moved but don’t know why. That’s where the magic lies.
Adrian Dunbar
Doing ‘White Collar,’ quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
Tim DeKay
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Migrants don’t come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press conference, of ‘lies’ told by smugglers that, once here, you can’t get deported. They come because their countries have been destroyed by U.S. policy.
Greg Grandin
Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.
Sheri L. Dew
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
Edward Burnett Tylor
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that’s where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
Sarah Harrison
I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one’s humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
Naveen Jain
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
I was on a train of lies. I couldn’t jump off.
Clifford Irving
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
Paul Dirac
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God’s laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter’s hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
John Updike
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements… We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
Cyril Ramaphosa
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It doesn’t benefit me to lie to people. They’re eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That’s the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.
Rush Limbaugh
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci
Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.
Tyler Hamilton
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Michael Shermer
The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall
I don’t think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
Condoleezza Rice
Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself – not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.
George T. Conway III
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, ‘Tell me the truth? Is it true?’ Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It’s a bit absurd, but that’s why everybody lies so much.
Penelope Cruz
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
James Rollins
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Helen Clark
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
Charles Duhigg
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O’Rourke
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we’ve seen enough lies and look what it’s doing.
Waris Dirie
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.
Jonathan Dee
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
Lee Mack
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Origen
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
Its success lies in the fact that it’s an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
James Roosevelt
The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
James Anthony Froude
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.
Tom Waits
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Adela Florence Nicolson
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on – I’ve got some great lies for you this month.
Alan Gorrie
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Stewart Udall
My interest lies in my self-expression – what’s inside of me – not what I’m in.
John Turturro
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
Alva Myrdal
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
John Maeda
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Robert Kiyosaki
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin
The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It’s not some frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim. It lies at the heart of what this country was founded upon.
Wayne LaPierre
When you’re surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizsaecker
Chernobyl’ is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union in the 1980s as inaccurately, and melodramatically, as it portrays the effects of radiation.
Michael Shellenberger
Man doesn’t dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That’s where my faith lies.
Ray Lewis
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 .
Heinrich Himmler
I’m a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I’m a promoter of America. I’m American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls ’cause the bell tolls for thee.
Don King
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
Derek Walcott
I’ve always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.
Jeff Buckley
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Then, as if that’s not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.
Franjo Tudjman
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa – particularly the ‘forgotten emergencies’ in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.
Jim Peebles
We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
About 90 percent of what’s out there in cyberspace is hearsay – or lies – and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it’s all repeated over and over again.
David Tang
I’ve learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
Fergie
Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.
Joyce Meyer
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.
Dominic Grieve
The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves – and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.
Simon Van Booy
All writing is the same: It’s just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That’s what I do.
Brian K. Vaughan
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Geoff Mulgan
If you’re dealing with personal kind of acting, you’re not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that’s where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
Jim Parrack
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne Dyer
There’s something really interesting about having those close friends that you’ve had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it’s something that happens to us all.
John Simm
