#lie

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#believe #certainly #joke #kernel #progress

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there... ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#lies #love #the-lion-and-the-lark #dreams

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#complement #does #guilt #hurries #lie

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level. ↗

— John Dyer

#art #consider #course #degree #directly

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#absolutely #anybody #anything #bad #be true

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#asleep #begins #both #dangerous #down

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#catholic #free #free will #gave #give

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#consequences #daring #evidence #faith #regardless