My religion lies in my composition.
You know what lies are for.
There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear, specific memory of and think you could do a good job writing about. What I find is that it's like a seed you plant. You can try it, and if it will grow and connect with other ideas in the book, and you can see connections that you can actually realize on the page, then you're allowed to leave it in. But if it just kind of lies there and doesn't really add up to anything or there's no chemistry with everything else going on in the book, then you have to take it out.
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie. . . . That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.
Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.