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“I do not leave any verses, dogmas, nor any moulded standard principles as moral heritage. My moral heritage is science and reason. What I have done and intended to do for the Turkish nation lies in that. Anyone willing to appropriate my ideas for themselves after me will be my moral inheritors provided they would approve the guidance of science and reason on this axis.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Kemalist Devrim ve İdeolojisi (1980) by İsmet Giritli, İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, p. 13
“The greatest error is to call a man a weak and miserable sinner. Every time a person thinks in this mistaken manner, he rivets one more link in the chain of avidya that binds him, adds one more layer to the “self-hypnotism” that lies heavy over his mind.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Swami Vivekananda, Quoted by M.M. Thomas, The Acknowledged Christ of Indian Renaissance, 2nd Edition, Madras 1976, p. 125. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1996). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 13
“The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What happened before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What lies on the other side of creation? The other side of a black hole? Are s possible? s? s? Do we live in a multiverse? All these questions cannot be answered with our present-day understanding.”
Michio Kaku (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
Diane Ackerman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I said last year, each country will pursue a path rooted in the culture of its own people. Yet experience shows us that history is on the side of liberty, that the strongest foundation for human progress lies in open economies, open societies, and open governments. To put it simply, democracy, more than any other form of government, delivers for our citizens.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City," September 23, 2010. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project
“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love.”
George R. R. Martin (born 1948) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meathouse Man (1976)
“there is no war not based on lies, there is no infamy alive without its kindred kin, deceit.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 1953 or 1954).
“The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: "The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical." All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Philosophy (1965).
“Here lies Megistias, who died When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide. A great seer, yet he scorned to save Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave.”
Simonides of Ceos (556–468 BC) said by 468 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The National Front is a team. Its strength lies in its team spirit.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The motive-force for the success of ASEAN lies in our firm belief in peace and in working together for the prosperity of all in the region.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: News Conference (28 July 1965)
“Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the Senate has any weakness it is because the people have sent to that body men lacking the necessary ability and character to perform the proper functions. But this is not the fault of the Senate. It cannot choose its own members but has to work with what is sent to it. The fault lies back in the citizenship of the states. If the Senate does not function properly the blame is chiefly on them.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think we certainly must recognise...how much ground has been lost by the doctrines of free trade within the last 25 years. It is a great and heavy disappointment. I have no doubt that the dreadful militarism which lies like an incubus, like a vampire upon Europe, is responsible for much of the mischief.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Prince's Hall, Piccadilly (12 May 1890), quoted in The Times (13 May 1890), p. 11
“The solution lies in secrecy,” said Medra. “But so does the problem.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Left-Handed Commencement Address", Mills College (1983)
“[M]athematical reality lies outside us ...our function is to discover or observe it, and ...the theorems ...we prove, and ...describe grandiloquently as our 'creations', are simply our notes of our observations. This view has been held, in one form or another, by many philosophers of high reputation from Plato onwards [...]”
G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the peoples of great nations can work, sacrifice, fight, and die together because they share common fears and common hatreds in war, why can we not find a way to tap the great spiritual reservoir that lies deep within each of us and get people and nations working, sacrificing, and building together in peacetime because they share common hopes and common aspirations.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141
“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.”
Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (13 January 1865), as quoted in History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congress (1865) by Henry Wilson, p. 388
“You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Standing alone, eager to just believe, it's good enough to be what you really are, but in your heart, uncertainty forever lies, and you'll always be, somewhere on the outside.”
Mariah Carey (born 1969) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Outside", "Butterfly", 1997
“Hope lies in fighting back. (conclusion)”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even in this high-tech digital age with high-definition television and digital radio, still all we get is static: that veil of distortion, lies, misrepresentations, and half-truths that obscure reality.”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Essentially the fault lies in the fact that the democratic political process is at best regulated rivalry; it does not even in theory have the desirable properties that price theory ascribes to truly competitive markets.”
John Rawls (1921–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Homily during the Holy Mass at the Capital Mall in Washington, D.C., on 7 October 1979, during the pope's first apostolic journey to the United States
“Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I see no reason to depart from my view] that at some point along the line of growth, absolute and proportionate, of the Commonwealth population in London and the other English cities affected, there lies the certainty of violence on a scale which can only be adequately described as civil war.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Young Conservatives in Ashton-under-Lyne (28 March 1981), quoted in The Times (30 March 1981), p. 2
“The Russia stuff, the lies, the bullying, the ignorance, the bullshit. Look, I know I'm not going to be here much longer. But I'd like to think that even if that weren't the case, I would have enough self-respect not to kiss his ass like this.”
John McCain (1936–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Trump, as quoted in John McCain, dying of cancer, expressed hope that he would have 'enough self-respect not to kiss' Trump's 'ass' like some of his GOP colleagues: book (December 2017)
“Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), edited by Bill Swainson, p. 662
“Mutual reflection. Open and candid conversation. Questioning of old beliefs and assumptions. Learning to let go. Awareness of how our own actions create the systemic structures that produce our problems. Developing these learning capabilities lies at the heart of profound change.”
Peter Senge (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the hyacinth which the shepherd tramples on the hill Lies upon the ground and lying bloometh purple still.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 105b Voigt (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1922)
“Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The shaping influence of economic change can of course be distinguished, as most notably in the period with which this book is concerned. But the difficulty lies in estimating the final importance of a factor which never, in practice, appears in isolation.”
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Culture and Society (1958) p. 280
“It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Honour the brave who sleep Where the lost “Titanic” lies, The men who knew what a man must do When he looks Death in the eyes.“Women and children first,”— Ah, strong and tender cry! The sons whom women had borne and nursed, Remembered,—and dared to die.The boats crept off in the dark: The great ship groaned: and then,— O stars of the night, who saw that sight, Bear witness, These were men!”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heroes of the "Titantic" (November 9, 1912).
“Children's lies are signs of great talent.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph on a Jacobite (1845)
“I hold every man's faith so sacred, that no other man has a right to interfere with it, or to question it. The matter lies solely between himself and his Maker.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.”
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) Edited by J. R. Newman
“And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When I'm Gone" from Phil Ochs in Concert (1966)
“The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t think they should be discussing the Bill. It represents the lies of those that took the people into Parliament. The same opportunists are using the GCC to push the Bill through.”
Frank Bainimarama (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source