Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

Girls fall in love with what they hear. Boys fall in love with what they see. That’s why girls wear make-up and boys lie.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy.

The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

You know what I will do sometimes? I'll let my phone die... and I will say, 'You know what, I'm not lying, my phone died.'

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

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