Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.'
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.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.
We are chained to the earth by a chain of gold, but we dare not sever it; for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
Somewhere in the back of every child's conscious, lies the teaching of Spiritual Guidance, when it has been taught.
Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.
I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.
