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“All things lie dark in possibility.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baby" (1936)
“I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my love to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where eer I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bade my love good bye.”
John Clare (1793–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He often said to me that he wished he could lie down to sleep 'like other people' ... he must, with some determination, have made the experiment ... Thus it came about that his death was due to the desire that had dominated his life—the pathetic but hopeless desire to be 'like other people'.”
Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain, We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, But we know that we rose and walked, that after a while We shall lie down again.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”
Joycelyn Elders (born 1933) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006
“In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teddy — I suppose Mummy and Daddy are real, aren't they?" Teddy said, "You ask such silly questions, David. Nobody knows what 'real' really means. Let's go indoors." "First I'm going to have another rose!" Plucking a bright pink flower, he carried it with him into the house. It could lie on the pillow as he went to sleep. Its beauty and softness reminded him of Mummy.”
Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime Never to laugh nor love again Nor taste the Summertime.”
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rouge Bouquet" (1918)
“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“. . . do not lie except when you are obliged, for jugglers who play with too many knives are apt to cut their fingers.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drowsy I lie, no folk at my command, Who once was called the Lady of the Land; Who might have bought a kingdom with a kiss, Yea, half the world with such a sight as this.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain, Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rosalita jump a little lighter. Senorita come sit by my fire. I just want to be your love, ain't no lie. Rosalita you're my stone desire.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to run through the halls of my high school, I want to scream at the Top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, Just a lie you've got to rise above.”
John Mayer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With such confusions, don't it make you wanna scream? Your bash abusing victimize within the scheme, You try to cope with every lie they scrutinize, Oh, brother, please have mercy, 'Cause I just can't take it!”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if I’m alone in bed, I will go over to window, look up at the sky and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people stay far away from the door If there's a chance of it opening up They hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes by. Some people live with the fear of a touch And the anger of having been a fool. They will not listen to anyone So nobody tells them a lie.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some love is just a lie of the heart The cold remains of what began with a passionate start. And they may not want it to end But it will, it's just a question of when. I've lived long enough to have learned The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned. But that won't happen to us Because it's always been a matter of trust.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was caught up in a lie he half-believed, Found her hiding high in the family tree. Washed his hands, and put her 'cross his knee. She said "daddy, you've been a mother to me.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, as quoted in John Gibson Lockhart Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. VII (1838), p. 294
“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.”
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters from New York (1841-1843), p. 206, Letter XXVIII, 29 Sep 1842
“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss. I am pushing knives through the hands that created two into one. Our hands do not bleed at this, they lie still in their dishonor.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, Dreaming of things that we might have been.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie”
Rob Thomas (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.”
Jane Fonda (born 1937) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Iraq War. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004
“motherland cradle me close my eyes lullaby me to sleep keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go, don't you go”
Natalie Merchant (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since as a child I used to lie Upon the leaze and watch the sky, Never, I own, expected I That life would all be fair.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our wives can learn from Queen Louise that the principal task of a woman does not lie in the domain of political meetings and propaganda, but in the quiet duties of the hearth and of family.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I regard it as my duty, in the spirit of my parents, to hold my hand over my German people, its rising generation, to cultivate in them the sense of the beautiful, to develop in them a taste for art, but only on a definite path, only within definite limits, which lie in the feeling for beauty and harmony, that exists in the hearts of men.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know she loves the sunrise No longer sees it with her sleeping eyes And I know that when she said she's gonna try Well it might not work because of other ties and I know she usually has some other ties And I wouldn't want to break 'em, nah, I wouldn't want to break 'em Maybe she'll help me to untie this but Until then well, I'm gonna have to lie too”
Jack Johnson (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The men on the Dauntless have disliked the Sea Girl's crew ever since our skipper took their captain to a cleaning on the wharfs of Zanzibar—them being narrow-minded that way. They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Civilized men laugh," said Conan. "But not one can tell me how Zogar Sag can call pythons and tigers and leopards out of the wilderness and make them do his bidding. They would say it is a lie, if they dared. That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's all a lie. They're just pretending to praise me.”
Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok (7 March 1983); quoted in Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
“Calling socialism, under which the popular masses are the masters of everything, "totalitarianism" is, ultimately, a preposterous lie which identifies the most progressive idea that reflects the demands of the popular masses with the reactionary idea of fascist rulers.”
Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abuses of socialism are intolerable," article in Central Committee magazine Kulloja (March 1, 1993)
“Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it’s very comfortable.”
Harold Pinter (1930–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not manly to lie even about Satan.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This cannot be called wilful murder, for I was compelled to shoot [the police] in my own defence, or lie down like a cur and die.”
Ned Kelly (1854–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they packed our remains in, shattered into a mass of animated gore to Mansfield, they would have got great praise and credit as well as promotion but I am reconed a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them under such trying circumstances and insults to my people.”
Ned Kelly (1854–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source