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Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.
We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.
You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.
I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.
To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.