Change Quote by Anthony Marra

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions…

— George Jean Nathan

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

— Elbert Hubbard

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

— Thomas Carlyle

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with…

— Flannery O'Connor

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his…

— Alfred Kazin

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

— Rafael Sabatini

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

— Ernest Hemingway