We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
It is worse than folly. . . not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
Most virtue lies between two vices.
Deep within each one of us lies a garden.
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.
If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.
The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.