When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Weakened anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is called religion and absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is called (True)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what’s standing before you.” — RJ Intindola - - 1986 Copy Share Image
There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are… — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's… — Adele Copy Share Image