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"There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared."
"Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep."
"I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes."
"It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap."
"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face."
"Never lie under any circumstances."
"We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye."
"Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth."
"You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie."
"Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon."
"[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie."
"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground."
"I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me."
"Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth."
"Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you."
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
"When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is."
"I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies."
"...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them."
"What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?"
