The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the tru….
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god..
The lie is elaborate and exact..
I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - wer….
The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quit….
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even no….
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!.
The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and s….
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people..
Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the….
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth..
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your tru….
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I re….
Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, be….
And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing G….
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penet….
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most i….
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solem….
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing not….
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as w….
A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery..