The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There’s no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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.
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you’re not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.
There is a gap between the heart and brain – that is where the soundbox lies. Some sing from their heart; others use their brain.
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
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.
The ranking never lies.
I’ve told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It’s very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you’ve done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you’re honest.
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.
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
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.
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.
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Well, it’s 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you’re having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
I understand that I’m able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people’s hearts and to move them.
I was on a train of lies. I couldn’t jump off.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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.
The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
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?
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
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.
My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
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.
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like ‘Shameless,’ ‘Homeland’ and ‘House of Lies.’ And of course, ‘Scandal’ is high on the list; you’ve got to do ‘Scandal.’
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.
The solution of this country’s problems lies in black hands.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
The average person tells a few white lies.
