Mirages Quotes
81 quotes by 76 authors
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire…
— Daniel Pearce
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Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
— Robert Breault
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If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person…
— Michel Leiris
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Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science…
— Jacques Vallee
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I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are…
— Morris K. Jessup
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I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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The clothes I wear... that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I love the same…
— Stevie Nicks
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Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is…
— Lydia Millet
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.…
— Gautama Buddha
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things…
— Gautama Buddha
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Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his…
— James Tabor
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
— Herbert Spencer
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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
— Charles Bukowski
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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only…
— Naomi Wolf
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An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at…
— David Heinemeier Hansson
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The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to…
— Leah Hager Cohen
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It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of…
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
— Chris Gardner
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