#lies

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#follies #mischievous #ones #very #wars

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#because #curtis #focus #go #i

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. ↗

— John Sterling

#believes #does #lie #lies #man

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#communities #counter #decent #education #enough

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #certain #certain way #giving #giving up

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened. ↗

— John Edward

#concerned #connected #experience #experiences #families

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

#affluent #educational #educational opportunities #families #goal

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#flies #heart #judgment #out #pains