Pastoral Resources

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.