"Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Truth Quotes #Liars Quotes #Lying Quotes

“No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.”
“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America
“Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.”
“Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.”
“You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.”
“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”
“Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?”
“And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.”

You may also like: