Happiness lies first of all in health.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
Happiness lies in simplicity Complexity brings anxiety.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
The road doesn't tell the traveler what lies ahead.
Except for my father and my mother everybody lies.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.
People unable to bear the martyrdom [...] unintelligently jump off the path, and choose instead, conveniently enough, the world’s admiration of their proficiency. The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and in this lies the deep hum...
Jimmi manages a laugh that makes my skin crawl. “Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It's all false set upon us as truth. You can't coat something with l...
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure...
I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a surge in a certain kind of American patriotism. Therefore, American Christians will be challenged to remember where our true fealty lies. I’...
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the of...
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.
The average person tells a few white lies.
