Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
