Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that.… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to… — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
