#lies

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. ↗

— Junichiro Koizumi

#appeal #backdrop #beautiful #come #complete

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

#activity #become #course #desperate #desperation

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. ↗

— David Korten

#buyers #comprised #costs #degree #economy

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#human #lies #noises #obvious #origins

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#applies #his #license #life #novelist

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#health #idea #ill #implies #sickness

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments. ↗

— Joel Kotkin

#go #hope #lies #monuments #never

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#poorly #repressed #sexuality #some #well

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#attack #back #collect #country #no country

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#earth #either #except #give #hand