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“If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.”

Ifs World Self Home Happiness Joy Lying Fool Flow Dear Breasts Deceit Prize Jewels Huts

Book:Poems by Nathaniel Cotton: With the Author's Life

Source: Poems by Nathaniel Cotton: With the Author's Life

“You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.”

Book Character Film Lying Difficulty Deceit Confusing Presenting

Author:Thomas Perry

“It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.”

Lying Sex Ability Video Witness Deceit Senate Accurate Proposal Presentation

Author:Slade Gorton

“That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.”

Today Lying Youth Deceit Youth Of Today

Author:Willie Stargell

“I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.”

Needs Kind Long Lying Time Sound Animal Greater Particular Periods Cat Silent Characteristics Deceit Brutal Honorable Aversion Long Periods Of Time Indebted

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.”

Mean Lying Actors Community Class Ignorance Various Former Deceit Ruling

Author:Bela Lugosi

“Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.”

Way Wells Long Made Said Facts Shows Would Be Wanted Jobs Lying Decision Taken Grace Managers Deceit Assured Grapes Sour Smack Right Decision Misled Sour Grapes

Author:Rupert Lowe

“The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.”

Has Beens Reason Facts Today Lying Reason Why Deceit Schubert

Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.”

Believe Made Eye Lying Belief Effort Youth Regard Deceit Strict Aunt

Book:Cautionary Tales for Children

Source: Cautionary Tales for Children

“I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.”

Knows Lying Happened Mystery Deceit

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.”

Thinking Lying Hate Grief Comedy Dad Politician I Hate My Dad Awful Deceit Generalities

Author:Paul Lynde

“Appearances often are deceiving.”

Wisdom Lying Appearance Deceit Deceiving

Author:Aesop

“In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”

Lying Desire Deceit Satisfying

Author:Ben Hecht

“We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.”

Thinking Lying Authority Officials Deceit Public Trust Public Officials

Author:Bill Bradley

“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.”

Men Way Lying Love Is Men And Women Deceit Hype Dupes

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.”

Believe Lying Party Deceit

Author:John Arbuthnot

“The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.”

Shows Lying Speak Can Do Views Week Missions Statements Reports Deceit Packs Garbage Farce

Author:Meles Zenawi

“The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare”

Hard Lying President Attention Hard Work Succeed Welfare Deceit Plot Agendas Governance Rumor Downfall Needlework Daily Business

Author:Eduardo Ermita

“I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.”

Thinking Knows Years Heart I Can Lying Song Black Struggle Ass Kicks Deceit

Author:Ray Charles

“If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Lying Making Money Deceit Deceiving Angle Quid Pro Quo

Author:Mike Miller

“Lake quiets, tired of my lies.”

Lying Tired Lakes Deceit

Author:Deborah Ager

“Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.”

Ifs Lying Energy Rhythm Productive Deceit Trust Me Never Lie

Book:Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

Source: Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

“This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.”

Needs War Home Lying Iraq Deceit Troops Our Troops

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.”

Lying Secret Wonder Deceit Phenomenal Pretty Woman Phenomenal Woman

Book:Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient”

Ifs Should Lying Failing Genius Capable Doctors Absolutes Patient Illness Deceit Deceiving Neurosis Counterfeit

Author:Marcel Proust

“We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.”

World Government Lying Force Built Essence Deceit Regimes Presenting Outside World Uzbekistan

Author:Isa Gambar

“Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.”

Lying Enemy Wise Spread Intimate Deceit Infant Foe

Book:The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Source: The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.”

Play Remember Lying Balls Golf Get Better Deceit

Author:Bobby Jones

“Low on his funeral couch he lies!”

Lying Lows Deceit Funeral Couches

Author:Thomas Gray

“Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.”

World Christian Lying Building Pursuit Deceit Jerusalem Building Up

Book:Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Source: Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.”

Heart Lying Focus Needed My Heart Solitude Purity Deceit

Book:Dare to Succeed: How to Survive and Thrive in the Game of Life

Source: Dare to Succeed: How to Survive and Thrive in the Game of Life

“They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.”

Ifs Knows Lying Building Deceit Developers Nowhere To Go

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“I have spoken to Paul and he is now talking to his family and seeing where his future lies, whether it be here or back in Scotland, said Worthington. Obviously I'm delighted with the way he played today and also the way he performed at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday when he only knew he would be playing 15 minutes before the game.”

Way Said Would Be Today Lying Games Talking Seeing Minutes Deceit Saturday Scotland Delighted Wednesday Sheffield

Author:Nigel Worthington

“The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”

Knows Ends Lying Pleasure Findings Difficulty Lust Deceit

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.”

People I Can Lying Innocent Deceit

Author:Dave Collins

“We have made the Reich by propaganda”

Made Tyranny Propaganda Deceit Tyrants

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.”

Ifs World Political Example Hero Deceit Prisoner Accused Political Prisoners Bradley Manning

Author:Julian Assange

“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”

War Peace Threat Propaganda Decent Deceit Patriotic Honorable Portraying

Author:Jeannette Rankin

“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.”

Thinking Powerful Capacity Propaganda Deceit Heroin

Book:A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Source: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

“To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.”

Knows Men Mean Happens Beautiful Deceit Cunning Really Beautiful

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

World Natural Capable Starting Oneself Chosen Deceit Hype Chatter Condemning Deceitful Center Of The World

Author:Guy Debord

“Art is the most beautiful deception of all!”

Art Beautiful Lying Art Is Deceit Beautiful Lies

Author:Claude Debussy

“Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.”

Men Mean Two Government Form Wealth Democracy Office Slave Greed Deceit Falsehood Popularity Despotism Forms Of Government Lashes Treacherous Deceitful

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.”

Men Believe Christian Lying Wish Fantasy Devil Bible Unhappy Kingdoms Temptation Deceit Unfortunate Rejected Consent Without God

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.”

Thinking Men Life Giving Years Firsts Running Past Joy Lying Pleasure Cutting Strange Fool Former Deceit Cheat Favour Morrow Dregs

Author:John Dryden

“The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.”

Love Looks Sin Fire Lovers Filled Deceit Alarms

Author:William Blake

“Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!”

Self Dream Spiritual Sin Existence Emotional Satan Deceit Gratification Indulgence Pipe Abstinence Hypocritical Satanism Pipe Dreams

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.”

Men Feels Character Form Lying Stealing Deception Deceit Agreement Cheating Judged Truthful Honorable Feels Right Honorable Man

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.”

Trying Real Ends Care Challenges Deals Environment Health Overcoming Safety Deceit Public Health Real Work Health And Safety I Do Care

Author:Erin Brockovich

“When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”

Wisdom School Values Education Learning Students Deception Grades Deceit Cheating Black People Cheat Exam School System Good Grades

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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