. . we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.
From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. . . . Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. . . . Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.
Our best hope for the future [. . . ] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.
I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.
First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire. -Roland Deschain, of Gilead
Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.
Your path lies across the stars.
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.