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“It does not suffice for you to say I am a sweet girl, or to say you hate to see me sad because of you. It does not suffice, to merely lie beside each other, as those who love each other do.”
Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not lie to the Scholar.”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One sees you sitting in the sun Asleep; With the sweeter gifts you had And didn't keep, One grieves that the altars of Your vice lie deep.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1848 (quoted in Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer, page 1.
“I lie in the lean hours awake listening to the swell born somewhere in the Atlantic rising and falling, rising and falling wave on wave on the long shore by the village that is without light and companionless. And the thought comes of that other being who is awake, too, letting our prayers break on him, not like this for a few hours, but for days, years, for eternity.”
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Other" in The Echoes Return Slow (1988)
“Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.”
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a slave of colonial forces like you and others. … Do not indulge yourself in things you have no business with! The lie is before you and the grave is in front of you!”
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924–2015) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reply to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the Arab League Summit in Egypt, 2 March 2003 when Abdullah was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
“She has only warped second-hand memories of motion pictures, none of them her own. It seems like a fantastically unproductive use of her time with Alex, staring vacantly at an elaborate visual lie.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This year, once again, the seasons have passed. Memories have faded. The border between my blurry dream and reality has become blurred. Even so, the dream I once told you of did not have a single lie.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goodbye. You have gone to the place where we can never meet again I can't accept the coldness of an eternal parting I wish I could have heard you say That surely, you had loved me Only once, even if it were a lie”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lips told a lie For a trivial reason It wasn't for anyone else But only to protect myself And I didn't think about anyone else”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The benefit of the governed is made to lie on one side and the benefit of the governors on the other.”
William Godwin (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. However, I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and try to make me a legend, when the real heroics — of my fellow soldiers that day — were legendary.”
Jessica Lynch (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.”
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe we are today crossing the Rubicon, Mr Chairman. In South Africa there can be no turning back. I have a manifesto for the future of our country and we must engage in positive action in the months and years that lie ahead.”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his National Party Congress Speech in Durban on 15 August 1985
“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently …”
Bill Mollison (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I have seen is going to disappear, since I shall do nothing with it. I am like a mother the fruit of whose womb will perish after it has been born. What matter? I have heard the annunciation of whatever finer things are to come. Through me has passed, without staying me in my course, the Word which does not lie, and which, said over again, will satisfy.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She goes into her room and disappears. Before I went to the war we slept in the same bed. We used to lie down side by side, so as to be annihilated in unconsciousness, or to go and dream somewhere else. Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas. For man and wife — to sleep, to die.) But since I came back we separate ourselves with a wall.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The sophist] is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Observation made privately, quoted by Time journalist Michael Kramer, The Case for Skepticism Time, (26 December 1988), in the context of doubts about PLO sincerity in hinting about recognition of Israel.
“That'll be the day — when you say goodbye. That'll be the day — when you make me cry. You say you're gonna leave — you know it's a lie, 'cause That'll be the day when I die.”
Buddy Holly (1936–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.”
Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wendy Wasserstein (1991) The Heidi chronicles and other plays, p. 60
“Black propaganda and negative politics don't and won't work here/elsewhere simply because of one thing - it is based on a lie.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Francis Escudero Twitter feed: @SayChiz (3:30 p.m. 2015 December 28).
“And because he believes numbers don’t lie, he minces no words in explaining them, and will not consult the political weather bulletin on when to expose them. So much so, that he sometimes sails against the wind, driven only by the motto set by his grandfather, who also once sat here, that one must do what is right over what is popular.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our father's remains now lie in state at the main chapel of Mt. Carmel Church in New Manila, Quezon City.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His remains lie in state at the Mt. Carmel Church at Broadway corner 5th Street, New Manila, Quezon City until Tuesday.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”
Sergei Lukyanenko (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The path of the PROUN does not lie within the narrowly limited, fragmented, and isolated scientific disciplines — the builder consolidates them all together in his own experimental investigation. The path of the PROUN is not the incoherent approach of separate scientific disciplines, theories, and systems, but is rather the straightforward path of learned influence over reality.”
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The president is a liar. Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief.”
Maxine Waters (born 1938) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Washington Times (6 December 2005) "Inside Politics
“While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes and pleasures of its own. Then I may cherish at my breast An infant's form beloved and fair, May smile and soothe it into rest With all a Mother's fondest care.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Simonides, "Epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylæ", in Blackwood's Magazine (Dec. 1833)
“The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?”
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture. (p249, "Motherhood and Daughterhood")”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think on the shame of dreams for deeds, The scandal of unnatural strife, The slur upon immortal needs, The treason done to life:Arise! no more a living lie, And with me quicken and control Some memory that shall magnify The universal Soul.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe and you beg and you promise And you bargain and you plead Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus It's the big white beard I suppose. Im going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold I might be gone for a while if you need me.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lie down baby now don't say a word There there baby your vision is blurred Your head is so sore from all of that thinking I don't want to hurt you now But I think you're shrinking.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You lie so well I could never even tell what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in cause I’m a Labrador and I run when the gun drops the dove again”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the difference in the world are as nothing compared to this: the difference between being you and being me. It makes the chasms between gods and men, between men and women, between dead and alive, seem almost trivial.You are you. She is someone else. Between lie the stars.”
Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.”
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Alan Magee, in Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics., Forum Gallery, New York, 2004
“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”
Richard Quest (born 1962) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
“In the recognition of the growth in human consciousness and in a realization of the distinction obviously existing between primitive men and our modern intelligent humanity lie the grounds for an unshaken optimism as to human destiny.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet heart, bitter heart Now I can't tell you apart Cozy and cold Put the horse before the cartThose teenage hopes Who have tears in their eyes Too scared to own up To one little lie.”
Leslie Feist (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...there is something larger that’s looming out there. A force that remains patient and silent. An entity that waits to teach a lesson that we have yet to grasp. It is much better to just lie there and let it roll over you like some immense army of unquestionable wonder.”
Matthew Good (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is said that the law of Christ governs European civilization. That is a lie. It shines on it's surface, but does not penetrate to it's entrails.”
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Os Brâmanes (1866). p. 107
“Autumn has come; Storming now heaveth the deep sea with foam, Yet would I gratefully lie there, Willingly die there.”
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The balls, the chutzpah, the gall, nerve and impudence of the successful lie that is huge enough never to be questioned is always a source of immense professional pleasure amongst magicians with any sense of the theatrical.”
Derren Brown (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've kind of got to tell a lie. We'll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn't have been, and we won't dwell on that. We'll say, 'To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we'll summon it forth'.”
Steven Moffat (born 1961) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 2016
“When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.”
N. K. Jemisin (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source