Illusion Quotations | Page 3

We all knew what we were going over to do. We all hoped nobody would get hurt, but that illusion was popped early when we lost Sean Cooley.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

We should have no illusion as to the severity of the struggle we face against international terror. It will be long, it will wide and it will be deep,

Believe in the hope of your Life Illusion because this is the only real thing that you posses!

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

These data shatter the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil spending in California. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring inequity in the distribution of teacher talent and teacher dollars.

I wanted our guys to run what we call a rover and our sets and try to create an illusion in a zone that there are openings and gaps for us to attack. We didn't attack those like we needed to.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.

Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

Privacy is an illusion. Privacy doesn't exist, and it hasn't existed for quite a long time.

Ours is a world where the many are ruled by the few, illusion masquerades as truth, and crisis is the crucible.

People should not be under the illusion that the city is in a position to shoulder the financial burden of a new swimming center, ... We just don't have the money.

People should be under no illusion that this is still an illiberal piece of legislation that severely restricts consumer choice and limits the rights of publicans and restaurateurs to run their business as they see fit.

People are under the false illusion that because the tests are graded by a machine that the process is objective. But everything, including programming the machine and doing quality control on it, is, in fact, done by human beings. And all humans make mistakes.

a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?

Are all this evils as necessary as it is non-Knowledge to us in order to get to know and to have this dream which we think we know, yet we do nothing else than live the Illusion of Life through it?

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

And the meaning of man in this dream of his Illusion of Life is to fulfil the man, to know that he is not in the least more insignificant than the sun or the stars, to know that the sun and the stars of the endless universe will finally become the same stardust as the man, that nothing is above him. He will know the divinity in him won the battle on the entire universe by giving it a meaning, that of a being that accepts the vanity and though this acceptance it becomes a divine being, that no longer is inferior to the universe, but equal to it, because the stras and the man will be lost in the same stardust

You don't think like adults for the simple reason that you don't have adult brains. You can only work with the brain you have. Because teens think and react from a more emotional part of the brain, they often have the illusion of indestructibility, which can cause dangerous behavior.

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

It's truly unpleasant to see a synagogue burned down, but this destruction was foretold. None of the Cabinet ministers had the illusion that the Palestinian Authority would want, and especially would be able, to save the synagogues from the mob.

It's the illusion of more information, but it's actually a lot of repetition.

It makes no sense to put dam removal on the back burner and to place all eggs in the 'other measures' basket, when there are no affective alternatives to dam removal that the NMFS has put on the table. A big illusion among the public is that those alternatives (to dam removal) have been identified by the NMFS. Somewhere between May 18 and the draft biological opinion that is now public, a decision was made to abandon the course that was consistent with the best science. The NMFS doesn't have that freedom.

Congress has no incentive to rein in pork, because pork helps lawmakers get campaign contributions and get re-elected. It is entirely predictable that Congress would create the illusion of reform while retaining the system that allows them to sell government grants for campaign contributions.

The noise of urgency creates an illusion of importance

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.

It's what I call the illusion of security, that's what I call it.

I hope the sort of remarks we heard today help to dissolve any possible illusion that might exist as to the true character of this new Palestinian leadership.

I'm not surprised. They need to create at least the illusion that they're doing something to stimulate jobs.

If the recovery has been built on the illusion of money games like this, then one has to wonder what it is we are seeing that is getting better in the economy.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

In 2006, the veil of competency that they pretended to have, the illusion of security they ran on, is no longer there. This is an election where the message is 'stand and deliver,' and they've not been able to stand and deliver.

Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.

I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up. More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong.

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

A woman should be an illusion

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head.

I'd rather have the illusion that (politicians) had ideas and high inspirations and principals, that they foster something in people that makes them want to be part of it instead of all of this exclusion stuff, which is really horrible. Everyone's not the same.

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

If Darwin is right, I have organized my life around an illusion, ... We have no moral demands if we are evolved.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

He performs feats of sleight of hand and illusion presented in a super-entertaining way. And he will follow each entertainment program with a message of inspiration and spiritual challenge, and we invite everyone to be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this great, world-class entertainer.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Hope is not an illusion.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

... sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.