The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.