Disabusing Quotes

#1. The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#2. The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

Herbert Hoover

#3. I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Susie Orbach

#4. The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me. It is in me - it is in me. In every one of us.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#5. Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

Rupert Everett

#6. but the general tendency is for wages to level down to the cost of production of labour, that is, the cost necessary for keeping the worker alive and capable of working and reproducing.

Anonymous

#7. I like fighting Tories ... that's what I do.

Anthony Albanese

#8. Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

Lu Yu

#9. There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Because the greatest part of a road trip isn't arriving at your destination. It's all the wild stuff that happens along the way.

Emma Chase

#11. Dawn is born at midnight.

Carl Jung

#12. I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions.

Rick Riordan

#13. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. We, all of us, must be left alone to make good on our own consciences. And no county magistrate or judge or deacon can separate us from the truth, for they are only men.

Kathleen Kent

#15. There is no such thing as 'my truth,' 'your truth,' or 'our truth'; there is only the Truth. And Truth is a Person: His name is Jesus. And it is only He that can set us free.

Desiree M. Mondesir

#16. Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.

Nicholas Haslam