The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Plautus
LieSightTalentsOutGreatest
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
Terry Eagleton
ImaginationLieAmericanEarthMost
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin
FreedomLieEqualityPoliticalWant
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Julian Barnes
LieNightThinkYouBadMiddle
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
StressLieDownEarthImportant
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
Joanna Scott
EyesBestWordsLieLiarsRather
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille
GoodLieMemoryGood MemoryUpKeep
I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.
Sasha Lane
DreamsBeginningLieSorryThink
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell
TruthLightLieGovernmentDesign
Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.
James Gunn
LieMeYouPlaceIndependentMore
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
MoneyLieNightProblemsSometimes
I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.
Jerry Weintraub
LieHonorYouDownHandNever
My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.
Svetlana Alexievich
LieWritingFactsCreateStriveOut
When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.
Sandra Oh
LightQualityLieYouFeelingTell
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
MenLieShouldBetrayPublic
Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
LieWalkingPureHeadAshesLies
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
Larry King
LieLookBedKnowWhyRadio
Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?
Johann Lamont
BestLieBelieveCreatingTestReal
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Susanna Moodie
LieHusbandWishEnoughDownWay
We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.
Raoul Peck
TimeIgnoranceLieListeningYou
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.
Monica Johnson
GodTruthPowerLiePeopleYou
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
Hugh Laurie
DayLieMeLunchRunMiles
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
LifePoliceLiePeopleYouTwo
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
Jenny Lewis
LifeBe KindLieWorldLookingLook
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