What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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.
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.
My religion lies in my composition.
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we’ve seen enough lies and look what it’s doing.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
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.
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
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.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it’s done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can’t help but admire the liar.
The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we’re going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there’s so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
The body never lies.
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.
I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That’s been my father’s philosophy and mine as well.
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.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That’s where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
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.
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
I’ve had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don’t like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
No lies, just love.
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.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
My goal is to make a player think, ‘I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.’
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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.
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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.
When you’re down and out, there’s no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
Fiction is lies; we’re writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
My career is one of people involvement. I’m a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I’m in it to win, I cant give in, I can’t give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
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.
If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
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.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
