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Saturday, May 18th, 2024
Eve of Pentacost
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Lies'

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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet (1492-1556)
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith, English Author (1864-1945)
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)
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)
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)
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch, American Businessman (1870-1965)
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist (1938-  )
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Charles Baudelaire, French Poet (1821-1867)
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire, French Poet (1821-1867)
 
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