It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
“The spectacle erases the dividing line between self and world, in that the self- under siege by the presence/absence of the world,… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The illusion of time and space that has been introduced by those who want to commodities and monetize on the time and… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you're alone all by yourself And you're lying in your bed Reflection stares right into you Are you happy with yourself?… — Beyonce Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Guess I thought you'd be here forever, another illusion I chose to create, you don't know what you've got till it's gone… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
