Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist you created it. It's all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong… — Paul Gagnon Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
“Since everything is only an illusion, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam.… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've… — Amy Neftzger Copy Share Image
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who… — Kabir Copy Share Image
There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image