Common Quote by Rose Macaulay Download Open image “It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” — Rose Macaulay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Delusion Talking
Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did. — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
When someone is delusional, there is no point wasting time responding to their delusions. — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If reality and fiction are equal, then any reality you dont need can just be called delusion. Thats how we do things. — Erika Karisawa Copy Share Image
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
