To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
Penelope Cruz

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas More

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille

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

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Tommy Chong

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Edward W. Howe

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edward W. Howe

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridge