The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music)… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want… — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Copy Share Image
Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out… — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
“As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
“They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and no-nos, unaware of the mystery living through them or of the dance of… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
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