Quotes 41 till 60 of 247.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2 -
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
The Canterville Ghost -
Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
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Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
The Road (2007) -
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.
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Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
It (1986) voorblad -
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
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For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
Rick Moody (2007) 202 -
For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All
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