When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son,. . . I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
I do think that there`s very little coverage of a lot of the people on Hillary Clinton`s side that aren`t - well, let`s just start with Hillary Clinton, herself who lies for a living.
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.
Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.
Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.
People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies. " And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
