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“We two will lie i' the shadow of That living mystic tree Within whose secret growth the Dove Is sometimes felt to be, While every leaf that His plumes touch Saith His Name audibly.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chinese irredentism and Communist imperialism are different from the expansionism or imperialism of the Western powers. The former has a cloak of ideology which makes it ten times more dangerous. In the guise of ideological expansion lie concealed racial, national and historical claims. The danger from the north and north-east becomes both communist and imperialist.”
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The extreme advanced party is likely for the future to have on its side a great portion of the most highly cultivated intellect in the nation, and the contest will lie between brains and numbers on the one side, and wealth, rank, vested interest, possession in short, on the other.”
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Young England and the Political Future’, The Fortnightly Review, No. XXXVIII (1 January 1867), pp. 491–492
“Sorry you woke up while I was tendin’ to it.” “Don't worry about that none,” his father said. “Got us plenty o’ more important things to worry about.” Cincinnatus wished he could have told him he was wrong. And he could have, too—but only if he were willing to lie.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The kid from the State Department disappeared. Jake stared after him. Either they really were making them younger than they had once upon a time or he himself was starting to get some serious mileage on him. He suspected the problem did not lie with the State Department.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust Descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer and — sans End!”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XXIII (1859) · XXIV (1889)
“A surprise party is where your friends and family lie to you to make you feel alone and unloved. Then, when they throw you the party they would have thrown, regardless, you experience a sudden rush of emotion as your depressed self returns back to normal. Some people think that life in general's like that. They keep waiting for the party. I call that: denial.”
“That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blind. The apprentice thought, "we are blind", and he sat down and wrote Blindness to remind those who might read it that we pervert reason when we humiliate life, that human dignity is insulted every day by the powerful of our world, that the universal lie has replaced the plural truths, that man stopped respecting himself when he lost the respect due to his fellow-creatures.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are children standing here, Arms outstretched into the sky, Tears drying on their face. He has been here. Brothers lie in shallow graves, Fathers lost without a trace. A nation blind to their disgrace, Since he's been here.And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness.”
James Blunt (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
Zadie Smith (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't say nothing bout the old house. Cos I burned it to the ground. And when the darkness comes, I lie awake. Playing lost and found”
“It's a lie in the end, you only satisfy your friends. ~ "So Much Work”
“They say, "What about horse evolution? Yes, boys and girls, you see this? The 4-toed horse evolved to the 1-toed horse." That's a lie proven wrong 55 years ago. The hyrax is the so-called 4-toed horse. They're still alive today in Africa and Turkey.”
Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Names" (1931)
“The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Understanding Our Mind (2006) Parallax Press
“Everyone always believes everything nasty of everyone else, and especially if it's a lie.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How is one to have any respect for the world where nothing else matters except who can lie the most plausibly and steal the most?”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.”
Billy Connolly (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On criticism of Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century Augustinian nun whose visions greatly influenced Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ] Why are they calling her a Nazi? ... Because modern secular Judaism wants to blame the Holocaust on the Catholic Church. And it's a lie. And it's revisionism. And they've been working on that one for a while.”
Mel Gibson (born 1956) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in "The Jesus War" The New Yorker (September 7, 2003).
“My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh shall I see the Thames again? The prow-promoted gems again, As beefy ATS Without their hats Come shooting through the bridge? And "cheerioh" and "cheeri-bye" Across the waste of waters die, And low the mists of evening lie And lightly skims the midge.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke.Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What for you lie?" the Chief of Rostrums repeated in a glowering voice. "You say your name is Black. No es Black." He shoved him backwards toward the door. "You say you are a wrider." He shoved him again. "You no are a wrider." He pushed the Consul more violently, but the Consul stood his ground. "You are no a de wrider, you are de espider, and we shoota de espiders in Méjico.”
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered [in the Holocaust].”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. September 11 attacks and Israel’s 9/11 exemplify the proverbial warning that “If you lie down with the devil, you will wake up in hell.”
Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2048. Report not an ill Thing that thou thy self knowest not, but by the Report of a Man, who may lie or aggravate the Matter.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“4970. They say so, is half a Lie.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lie here thinking of you:—the stain of love is upon the world!”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stumblin' around, and it will make it a lot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal-like Saran wrap you S.O What?, and I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.”
Brandon DiCamillo (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any evolutionary science... is a close-knit body of theory. It is a theory of a process, of an unfolding sequence... of cumulative causation. The great deserts of the evolutionist leaders... lie... in their having shown how this colorless impersonal sequence of cause and effect can be made use of for theory proper, by virtue of its cumulative character.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: pp. 375-378; As cited in: Geoffrey M. Hodgson, "Veblen and darwinism." International review of sociology 14.3 (2004): 343-361
“There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future.”
Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”
Ian McEwan (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every sentence a lie. ... And have you ever heard the BBC refer to Nawaz Sharif as a "fundamentalist," a "fanatic"? But what would it have called Advani if he had made a statement of that kind with "Hindu" substituted for "Muslims"?”
Arun Shourie (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To me, Dharma had always been a matter of moral norms, external rules and regulations, do's and don'ts, enforced on life by an act of will. Now I was made to see Dharma as a multi dimensional movement of man's inner law of being, his psychic evolution, his spiritual growth, and his spontaneous building of an outer life for himself and the community in which lie lived.”
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.”
Terry Eagleton (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: ‘Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had of goods and sex. You could get them still by writing a few cheques.’”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every time you talk to this person, you lie.”
Chuck Klosterman (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.”
Mike Huckabee (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilisationally.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which was more likely: what appeared to be the case, or this all being a lie, a set-up, a vast and incomprehensible joke? Discuss.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is, that the King can do no wrong.”
Charles I of England (1600–1649) first seen 1649 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reasons for declining the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice (21 January 1649)
“I'm absolutely clean. I've never tried anything. That's not a lie!.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know what it’s like to lie in bed at night, wondering if I was the one who had done something wrong. I know what it’s like years later to remember that rush of humiliation and anger.”
Jackie Speier (born 1950) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: she said in 2017, encouraging other women who worked at the Capitol and who had been subjected to harassment to come forward.
“I have been forced into this situation and may like it. To survive you must lie better than the liars, deceive more than the deceivers, and kill the killers first! To me it’s sheer necessity, though justified!”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.”
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.”
David Fincher (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or—in plain English—a lie.”
Christopher Monckton (born 1952) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leftists are immoral: Pray for them WorldNetDaily (24 December 2013).