There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Willem de Kooning

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Aeschylus

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The body never lies.
Martha Graham