Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

You know, its just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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