Lies Quotes

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

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.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

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.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

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.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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 .

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

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.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.