Quotes with lies

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  • Benjamin E. Mays It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Philip Roth It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
    Reading myself and others (1985)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Louis Pasteur Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Marcel Proust Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Francis Bacon Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Abel Hermant Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jean Cocteau Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Mitchell Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Sophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brody Jenner My heart really lies in my jewelry line, Archangel. I have really enjoyed watching the company go from nothing and slowly building it year by year, and getting into one store, then another store. And then I'll see someone wearing a piece of it on the streets, and it's all very exciting.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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