It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These… — Richard E Lingenfelter Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving… — Javan Copy Share Image
We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Happiness and misery are both delusions. One has a delusion of misery in the heat and a delusion of happiness under the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Jealousy may be an illusion which is devoid of any purpose, which is not to be found in the Self and which… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain… — Lise Sarfati Copy Share Image
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
I thought you were gone, it was just an illusion. Because you are here, hidden inside my heart, unconsciously always in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It… — Hans Tietmeyer Copy Share Image
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge… — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
