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Eve of Pentacost
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Quotations regarding 'Lie'

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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith, English Author (1864-1945)
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, English Writer (1666-1731)
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin, American Artist (1962-2002)
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden, English Poet (1907-1973)
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier (121-180)
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint (1515-1582)
Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this.
David Axelrod, American Public Servant (1955-  )
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon, English Philosopher (1561-1626)
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
Scott Bakula, American Actor (1954-  )
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary (1814-1876)
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary (1814-1876)
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
Stanley Baldwin, English Statesman (1867-1947)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball, American Comedian (1911-1989)
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
Robert Ballard, American Scientist (1942-  )
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
John Kendrick Bangs, American Author (1862-1922)
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish Dramatist (1600-1681)
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes, French Critic (1915-1980)
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch, American Businessman (1870-1965)
 
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