Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or lie:
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)