Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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.
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.
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
I’m not willing to say I want to return to private life because I’m too old to begin telling lies now.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The way of a man’s heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him – coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
It’s a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my moral alignment.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
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.
The problem lies with us: we’ve become addicted to experts. We’ve become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
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.
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.
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.
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life – to what lies beyond us, to what’s hidden inside of us, or perhaps to an understanding of what truly matters.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can’t compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s ‘don’t tell the truth.’ Lies keep you together.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
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.
Politicians… talk in generalities and lies, and I think they’ve caused all our grief. They’re so awful, they’re really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute – prayer, contemplation, focus – is up to them.
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.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
I lie to my children every day. Just little things to get them out the door when the school run is happening. White lies.
All these things they’ve been saying are a pack of lies.
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.
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.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
When there wasn’t a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, ‘What Lies Beneath,’ which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!
Don’t use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent native word ‘lies.’
All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.
