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“I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.”
Frank Buckles (1901–2011) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN March 8, 2008.
“O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.”
Byron Katie (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky.”
James Montgomery (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Montgomery
“Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.”
Evan Esar (1899–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a lie if we tell ourselves that the police can protect us everywhere, at all times. Firearms restrictions are bad enough, but now a woman can't even carry Mace in her purse?”
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.”
Lord Charles Beresford (1846–1919) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in R. Nevill, The World of Fashion, 1837-1922 (1923), ch. 5
“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there.”
Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man does not speak a lie to his son,” he said. “Remember that always. To say My father told me is to swear the greatest oath”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don’t. The reality isn’t important: what’s important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
Ted Chiang (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You might want to lie down. I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for awhile. It relaxes me.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as for the occurrence of the manifestation, it is up to Allah, and those who appoint a moment lie.”
Muhammad al-Mahdi (born 869) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The roots of art and play lie very close together.”
Angus Wilson (1913–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And even the Angels could not tell what was that voice so strange, Whose secret seemed to lie beyond Celestial wisdom’s range.”
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like to Diana in her summer-weed, Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, Goes fair Samela; Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed When wash'd by Arethusa Fount they lie, Is fair Samela.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fount] Walker's correction (Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare, &c. (1860) vol. 2, p. 268).—Both 4tos. "faint.
“New England's dead. New England's dead! On every hill they lie; On every field of strife, made red By bloody victory.”
Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How do you get away with it? Above all, how do you persuade people to risk their lives in order to kill total strangers whom they know almost literally nothing about? Why, the answer’s simple. You lie to them!”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it, shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes, shameful to call a funeral a wedding and play the fool at funerals besides.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.
“The conscience is a dilemma for the believer in evolution. He doesn't know why it exists. Neither do the experts. Why would evolution create something that tells us that it's wrong to lie, to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery? Was primitive man committing these sins before he evolved a conscience? If he wasn't, why didn't his conscience evolve? If he was, why did the conscience evolve?”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not - the terrific guy you keep telling me about. I'm not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I'm made of rats and snails and puppy-dogs tails. I lie sometimes. I have broken people's hearts. I'm looking for love, I'll admit that, but now that it's here in abundance, I'm afraid of commitment and I want you, please, to leave me.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For this reason Ahuramazda bore aid, and the other gods who are, because I was not hostile, I was not a Lie-follower, I was not a doer of wrong -- neither I nor my family. According to righteousness I conducted myself. Neither to the weak nor to the powerful did I do wrong.”
Darius I of Persia (550–486 BC) said by 486 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May Ahuramazda bear me aid, with the gods of the royal house; and may Ahuramazda protect this country from a (hostile) army, from famine, from the Lie!”
Darius I of Persia (550–486 BC) said by 486 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I tell you that Americans are fucking ignorant of their freedom. They're about as free as the Chinese. Except the Chinese don't lie to themselves.”
Daniel Suarez (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The British male has no interest in women. You could get all your clothes off and lie on the sofa and go "Come and get me baby" and they go, "Wanna cuppa tea?”
Alice Evans (born 1971) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Parry article quoting an Evans interview done for The Sunday Times in The Argus July 2002 "Think of it this way".
“(To a football player) If you lie to me, I'll mop the floor with you worse than anyone who's ever tackled you.”
Judith Sheindlin (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tel est le privilége du génie : il aperçoit, il saisit des rapports, là où des yeux vulgaires lie voient que des faits isolés.”
François Arago (1786–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The path which leads to the mount bf ascension does not lie among flowers; and he who travels it must climb the cold hillside, he must have his feet cut by the pointed rocks, he must faint in the dark valley, he must not seldom have his rest at midnight on the desert sand.”
Henry Giles (1809–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did everyone in jail think they were innocent? All this time Peter had spent lying on the bench, convincing himself that he was nothing like anyone else in the Grafton County Jail—and as it turned out, that was a lie.”
Jodi Picoult (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy’s debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the ‘real’ economy’s ability to carry this debt. … The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.”
Michael Hudson (economist) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism (September 3, 1998)
“You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.”
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed.”
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God...the most holy men have always been the most humble men...If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“#Since these questions lie in the future, imagination must supply the lack of experienced feeling in attaching value to them. But values can be only imperfectly anticipated.”
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the "giant brain" metaphor, there is little suggestion in this 1950 talk that the most important application of computers might lie in imitating intelligence symbolically, not numerically.”
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That idea that car manufacturers might disinvest after we leave the EU? It's a - what's the word? - oh yes. Lie.”
Daniel Hannan (born 1971) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet from verified account (17 September 2015)
“Into a dancer you have grown From a seed somebody else has thrown. Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own. And somewhere between the time you arrive And the time you go, May lie a reason you were alive That you'll never know.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.”
Robert Southwell (priest) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Were God to give us, at last, the cable, or patch-cord that links the Sun to the Climate System it would have on the solar end a banana plug, and on the other, where it hooks into the Earth—in ways we don’t yet know—a Hydra-like tangle of multiple 24-pin parallel computer connectors. It is surely at this end of the problem where the greatest challenges lie.”
John A. Eddy (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some problems could not be fixed with a lie.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) first seen 1084 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 115, “The Wrong Passion” (p. 1084)
“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a demarcation criterion exists (we must not, I think, seek a sharp or decisive one), it may lie just in that part of science which Sir Karl ignores.”
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?", Criticism and the growth of knowledge edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (1970)
“Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.”
Richard Cecil (clergyman) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim — that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.”
Richard Cecil (clergyman) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will reprove the world of sin" —not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder— "of sin because they believe not on me.”
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in National Geographic Vol. CX (July-December 1956), p. 487