In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.” — Jenny Cutler Lopez Copy Share Image
“If all the days and nights in the world were to cease to be, I still hold that we were meant to… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had… — Paulo Coelho 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
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
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
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
Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel 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
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
