#lies

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#last #lies #own #parties #political

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#chiefly #homer #lies #other #poets

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#accomplish #butterflies #creative #creative people #essential

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#back #benefiting #border #burden #citizens

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#anger #bellies #challenge #darkness #down

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#come #connecting #contradiction #destroy #each

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#chalk #cliffs #day #defense #dover

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#believe #class #courage #decided #deliver

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#big #caught #flies #get #laws

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#even #everything #i #idea #lies