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“The body is shaped, disciplined, honoured, and in time, trusted. The movement becomes clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life — the law which governs the outer aspects.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession—from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting—you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”
Marcus Buckingham (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.”
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies: Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more In every branch becomes the sale of money.”
John Davidson (poet) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 26
“Often,” he says, “what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no doubt that Jacomoni and Visconti Prasca have a large share of the responsibility in the Albanian affair, but the real blame must be sought elsewhere. It lies entirely with the Duce's command. This is a command that he, the Duce, cannot hold. Let him leave everything to us, and when things go wrong let him punish those responsible.”
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Pavolini. Quoted in " Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History" - Page 68 - by Owen Pearson - 2006
“The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...”
Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Suicide Squads: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II" - Page 267 - by Richard O'Neill - History - 1981.
“The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.”
John S. Hall (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.
“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”
Thomas Keneally (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.”
Nathaniel Cotton (1705–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fireside, stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea That's the way for Billy and me.”
James Hogg (1770–1835) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Boy's Song" (1831), line 1; cited from Songs and Ballads by the Ettrick Shepherd (Glasgow: Blackie, 1852) p. 196.
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Anthills of the Savannah, 1987
“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.” (Garden of Tortures)”
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much in the study of the paranormal was what we would now call pseudo-science. But the line between science and pseudo-science is smudged and shifting; where it lies seems clear only in retrospect. There is no pristine science untouched by the vagaries of faith.”
John Gray (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time will come when one's safety lies in ten things: nine of which are in staying aloof from men, and the tenth in staying silent.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) said by 818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The honour of a person lies in his needlessness from the people.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vices have been put in a house whose key is lies.”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One must have reverence for one's Guru. … One's chance of salvation lies in one's reverence for him. Observe how the disciples of the Master revere him. Out of this reverence for him they revere not only all the members of his family, but even the cats from his home-district!”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some men abuse women, but you should never raise your hand against them. You do not know how much they bear—they are forbearance itself. If you abuse them, where shall they turn? They are aspects of the Divine Mother, and if the Mother is insulted, the Lord is displeased. Thus your well-being lies in making them happy. (p.433)”
Swami Adbhutananda (died 1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is destined to be a very wealthy portion of the United States, and, if to this we can add the most temperate, nothing will prevent our rising, and becoming a valuable acquisition to the union. Much power now lies in your hands, and, I sincerely hope, we may commence our new career with a law in our statute books, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits in Oregon territory.”
George Abernethy (1807–1877) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Abernethy (1849) "Governor George Abernethy Legislative Message, 1849", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State.
“The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no absurdities or bigotries too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions. The path of all great statesmen lies between two opposing insanities.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The liberation of Macedonia lies in the internal uprising. Anyone who thinks otherwise about liberating Macedonia is lying to himself and others.”
Gotse Delchev (1872–1903) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Efrem Karanov (17 October 1895) - (Dino Kyosev, Gotse Delchev: Letters and other materials (Sofia, 1967), p. 274
“A virtuous youth and frugal manhood always create a Pisgah for the veteran in righteousness, from which he may calmly survey the stars, and read his " title clear to mansions in the skies," while yet in the flesh he can soar on the wings of meditation above the clouds, and catch glimpses of the heavenly world that lies in the placid and everlasting orient before him.”
Elias Lyman Magoon (1810–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.”
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.”
Albert, Prince Consort (1819–1861) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech of the Prince Consort at the Mansion House, 21 Mar. 1850, in The Principal Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince Consort (John Murray, 1862), p. 109-110
“..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
“We must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.”
Stanley Hauerwas (born 1940) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics" (1983) in The Hauerwas Reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright
“Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...under the glosing exterior of the Hindu, lies a general disposition to deceit and perfidy. [And] the same insincerity, mendacity, and perfidy; the same indifference to the feelings of others; the same prostitution and venality are conspicuous in both [Hindus and Muslims].”
James Mill (1773–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When he comes to me, I am ready. I’ll wash his feet with my hair if he needs, Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain. Even after three times, he betrays me. I’ll bring him down, bring him down, down, A king with no crown, king with no crown.”
“I wanna be the girl under you (oh yeah) I wanna be your G.U.Y (yeah) I wanna be the grave and unearth you (oh yeah) Our sexes tell us no lies.”
“Through these openings passes a pencil of rays sent out by the body... consider the part [of the pencil], whose lies between \lambda and \lambda + \partial \lambda, and let this be divided into two polarized components, whose planes of polarization are the [perpendicular] planes a and b... passing through the axis of the ray pencil.”
Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”
Jacob M. Appel (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice", The Huffington Post (2009-08-22)
“Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here is Christianity. Whence came it? What is it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.”
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I love, no woman will ever look on me in love.”
“There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves.”
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 365.
“While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger. And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool. So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger, While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behold a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas! a piteous sight.”
Robert Southwell (priest) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts my rest; My heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth; A mean the surest lot, That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot.”
Robert Southwell (priest) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here lies the peerless paper lord, Lord Peter, Who broke the laws of God and man, and metre.”
John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph on Patrick ("Peter"), Lord Robertson (1845); cited from Mary Gordon "Christopher North": A Memoir of John Wilson (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1863) p. 286.
“Falsehoods serve nobody, Kadash,” Dalinar said, pulling back. “If the Almighty is dead, then pretending otherwise is pure stupidity. We need real hope, not faith in lies.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.”
Philippe Sollers (1936–2023) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women (1990), tr. of Femmes (1983)
“We will take them with us, because they are too good, too lovely for the world which lies ahead... no, no I must also take the children, I must! ...they will be given a strong sleeping draught. Afterwards, I mean when they are fast asleep, they will be given an injection of Evipan or something sufficient to...to...”
Magda Goebbels (1901–1945) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a discussion with Ello Quandt, spring 1945
“The power of the average pop artist and her products lies in the pornography that is her 'art,' in her hackneyed political posturing, and in the fantastic technology that is Auto-Tune (without which all the sound you'd hear these 'singers' emit would be a bedroom whisper).”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harvey Sweinstein And Hollywood's Hos," The Daily Caller, October 20, 2017.
“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source