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“I always knew that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, "Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker?" It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: "Of course.”
Jennifer Lawrence (born 1990) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Van Meter, Jonathan. "The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Covers the September Issue". vogue.com. August 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
“If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.”
Jennifer Lawrence (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never lie unless it is absolutely necessary. Or convenient.”
Walter Slezak (1902–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the night of the exodus, the people met God, had a rendezvous with Him, and made His acquaintance for the first time. On Yom Kippur night, man gets very close to his Father in heaven, again meets Him, talks to Him, cries before and implores Him. The grandeur and singularity of these two nights lie in the God-man confrontation.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah, p. 3 (2006)
“I believe every lie that I ever told Paid for every heart that I ever stoll I paid my cause and I didn't fold Well, it ain't that hard when you got soul (This is my world) Somewhere I heard that life is a test I been though the worst but still I give my best yeah”
Aloe Blacc (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was like a quilt, a handmade, patterned quilt laid out for this man to take his final steps across and then lie down and die on: a quilted deathbed. It struck me that the world, or chance, or maybe death itself if you can speak of such a thing, must have loved this man in some way to prepare for him such a richly textured fabric to gather and wrap him up in.”
Tom McCarthy (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U.S. soldier' is just the lie of fools.”
Bowe Bergdahl (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A just social order can best be described as a humanist socialism, because its goal would be the establishment of equal possibilities within and between all countries, and at its base would lie universal human values”
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jan Tinbergen (1980), Reexamining the International Order Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980)
“All the British media do is lie. I have a lot to say but nothing to you. I want to thank the British public for all their support.”
Tommy Robinson (born 1982) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tommy Robinson bailed after Court of Appeal win BBC News (1 August 2018)
“The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our knowledge are radically inflected by the lie which fails to recognise this, fails to see God in humans who are 'other', or ourselves in our victims, which is to say the same thing.”
James Alison (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The epidemic psychosis of our time is the lie of believing we have no ethical obligation to our planetary home.”
Theodore Roszak (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You lie in the bed, an arm full of tubes, a mind full of drugs, but still thinking. You see the figure enter the quiet room and you lift your arm and focus your mind. You ask the doctor, if it can be arranged, that your last day not be your worst day.”
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Death Poems (2013)
“We perceive clearly that theories and hypotheses are not accepted or rejected outright; they have their periods of activity, and then lie dormant for a time, only to be revived in a new form later on.”
J. R. Partington (1886–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, boys, lie low, you know, and let 'em come up close, you know, and then rise up and give 'em ———, you know.”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the , November 24, 1863. Quoted by John K. Schellenberger, "With Sheridan's Division at Missionary Ridge" in Sketches of War History, 1861–1865, ed. W. H. Chamberlin (1885), p. 54
“The bottom line is that monetary policy is a lot harder in the post-crisis world. We have learned a lot from the past five years, but there is still much we do not know. Policymakers, including the new Federal Reserve chair, are going to need flexible minds, good research, and the wisdom of ordinary Americans if they are going to meet the challenges that lie ahead.”
Christina Romer (born 1958) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monetary Policy in the Post-Crisis World: Lessons Learned and Strategies for the Future", Sumerlin Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, October 25, 2013.
“The causes of violence lie in our basic values and the way in which we bring up our children and youth.”
James W. Prescott (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last ware over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.”
“Billions of dollars in research knowledge lie dormant at universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.”
“I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property.”
Assata Shakur (1947–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.”
“Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.”
Elisha Gray (1835–1901) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Energy and vibration: energy, sound, heat, light, explosives (1900); Fords, Howard & Hulbert, p. 201
“We shall get a sufficient quantity of provisions over to-day for the garrison at Fort Washington. General Mifflin thinks it not advisable to pull the barracks down yet. lie has hopes of our army returning to that ground for winter-quarters. I think this would be running too great a risk to leave them standing in expectation of such an event.”
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time that gives so much and Time that takes so much away has put its mark on this place that is Old Hemlock almost without altering anything. In that gray-black blend of night-to-dawn I lie and think of all that Kay and I possess, aware that what is good is not what is new but what is loved and used, with a patina from hands and years.”
George Bird Evans (1906–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The land, it does not lie].”
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (25 June 1940), quoted in Philippe Pétain, Discours aux Français, 17 juin 1940–20 août 1944 (1989), p. 66
“At the heart of death’s history lie not only the emotion of grief and the breaking of bonds between each other and our place in this world but also the hope of answering the queries and resolving the injustices of a lifetime.”
Douglas Davies (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time. ...Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events.”
Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A clue to the future must lie in the past... every scientist, and everyone with intellectual curiosity, can learn something useful from a brief study of the history of atomism.”
Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]imilarly, you expect the deep part of s, not to lie in the formal properties or algebra, but in their geometrical meaning.., and geometry here I identify, like Jean-Pierre, with analysis... You do geometry on s. You have to use analysis, differential equations.”
Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring In the days of long ago, Ranged where the locomotives sing And the prairie flowers lie low.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams my life continued to lie still, pretending as if it was in a deep slumber.”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both in Europe and in the Pacific long roads still lie ahead. But we are now fully entered on those roads, fortified with unity, power, and experience, imbued with confidence and determined to travel far and fast to victory.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not feel brave. I am not the center of this symphony. No one even cares if I am here. Where is the immortal majesty the poets promised me? Where is the stern will my ancestors preached to their children? It was just an illusion conjured by fools who never left their libraries, or by agents of necessity. This is the Noble Lie.”
Pierce Brown (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The politicians who make a lastin’ success in politics are the men who are always loyal to their friends, even up to the gate of State prison, if necessary; men who keep their promises and never lie. p. 35”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn’t lie. I implied.”
Lisa Mason (1953–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.”
Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to take you as close as you can get, I want to feel your ecstasy as you feel mine, I want to bridge the final gap between us, I want us to come together in a place where each can know the other does not lie.”
Norman Spinrad (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But despite all of the dangers and difficult judgements that lie ahead, burying our head in the sand is not an option. We must face up to this crisis and do all that we can to resolve it.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jo Cox: Syria is not Iraq – we must take action now (10 September 2015)
“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Malcolm Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. p. 198
“Consumerism and nationalism... make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community.., that we... have a common past.., interest and... future. This isn't a lie. It's imagination.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The modern economist has become even more insistent in his belief that the ultimate forces underlying economic development lie, strictly speaking, outside the economic sphere. As Meir and Baldwin put it, half humorously, “economic development is much too serious to be left to economists.” (1957, p. 119)”
David C. McClelland (1917–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Physical things are perceptual things. They also arise within the act... It is in the operation with these perceptual or physical things which lie within the physiological act short of consummation that the peculiar human intelligence is found.”
George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Herbert Mead (1927;314), as cited in: Marcus Persson (2007), Mellan människor och ting. En interaktionistisk analys av samlandet, p. 19
“Don’t lie,” he said. “That’s my job.”
M. K. Hobson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deep, deeper than we believe, lie the roots of sin; it is in the good that they exist; it is in the good that they thrive and send up sap and produce the black fruit of hell.”
Charles Williams (1886–1945) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Descent of the Dove (1939), Ch. 5
“Nor love consents that beauty's field lie waste.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O wondrous sphinx! within thy marble breast What undreamed secrets lie concealed! Hast thou no pity for my wild unrest My maddening longing for the unrevealed?”
Clara Jessup Moore (1824–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Classical Utilitarians...would claim, as Sidgwick did, that the destruction of mankind would be by far the greatest of all conceivable crimes. The badness of this crime would lie in the vast reduction of the possible sum of happiness.”
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts ... But our intention is never to lie to you.”
Sean Spicer (born 1971) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sean Spicer says the White House will be honest, but can disagree with the facts (January 24, 2017)
“You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don’t care. Just don’t lie to me.”
Steven Crowder (born 1987) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 February 2012 on Huffington Post
“What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment. — Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019)”
Mike Pompeo (born 1963) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Was The CIA Director - We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole, ZeroHedge,Tyler Durden Sun, (21 April 2019)
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed without citation in Young, David. Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life, Wind Runner Press, 2011. p. 189.