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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.
For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.
People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.
The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.
You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going to happen to me?'
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.