Best Fantasies Sayings
342 Fantasies quotes by 295 unique authors
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Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
— Michael Crichton
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The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is…
— George Soros
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For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
— Frantz Fanon
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Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or…
— James Kelman
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Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
— David Graeber
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Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for…
— Philip Slater
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One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate…
— Philip Slater
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People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or…
— Damian Thompson
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If…
— Andrew Schneider
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I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only…
— Frank Lentricchia
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I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
— R A Salvatore
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The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear.…
— S. N. Goenka
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There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,…
— Kay Hooper
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As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to…
— Unknown Author
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Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste…
— Molly Ivins
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands…
— John Milton
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
— Howard Hughes
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
— Anais Nin
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TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're…
— Bill McKibben
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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority…
— Jared Diamond
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in…
— Vince Cable
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I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's…
— Julian Casablancas
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...…
— Michael Dirda
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