Fictitious Quotes

64 quotes by 59 authors

I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the… — John Burroughs
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on… — Garet Garrett
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in… — George Saintsbury
Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is… — Tertullian
In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own… — Robert Higgs
Itâ€™s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the… — Evanna Lynch
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac
Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands. — Stefan Molyneux
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and… — Michael Frayn
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are… — David Trumble
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his… — Allen Tate
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. — Horace
I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were… — Steve Jobs
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of… — Jacque Fresco
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a… — Michael Moore
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates

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