Vital Lies Quotes

#1. It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

Edith Hamilton

#2. You're the one saying how vital offing these kids and grabbing their brat is to the war effort, right? Well, I'm telling you I need way more cash to do it right, so
Lying.
How have you not murdered that creature by now?
Oh, I've tried.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly.
From the book, Doing a 360, page 8

Nancy Ash

#4. I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.

Victor Hugo

#5. The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

Robert Barry

#6. Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

Patrick Marber

#8. I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#9. Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy.

Max Hastings

#10. There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H.G.Wells

#11. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

Amanda Burton

#12. Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Charles Capps

#13. My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant

Gilbert Adair

#14. Scenes which make vital changes in our neighbors' lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of the fields and trees, they become associated for us with the epochs of our own history, and make a part of that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness.

George Eliot

#15. I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

Geoffrey Rush

#16. Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Wilferd Peterson

#17. A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

#18. If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.

Diane Samuels

#19. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

Oscar Levant