Lie quotes

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” Oprah Winfrey

“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.” Oprah Winfrey

“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.” Oprah Winfrey

“These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.” Virginia Woolf

“It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.” Virginia Woolf

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.” Walt Whitman

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” Walt Whitman

“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” Alan Watts

“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” Alan Watts

“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.” Alan Watts

“I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.” Adele

“The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.” Adele

“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.” John Adams

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.” John Adams

“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.” John Adams

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” Ansel Adams

“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.” Marcus Aurelius

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” Marcus Aurelius

“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.” Marcus Aurelius

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.” Edmund Burke

“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.” Edmund Burke

“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” Edmund Burke

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.” Richard Bach