Illusory Promises Quotes

#1. The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach, - impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.

George Eliot

#2. SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.

Plato

#3. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

J.M. Bernstein

#4. For every wound, the ointment of time.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Bob Saget

#6. True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#7. You take ordinary things and turn them rainbow bright. It's what makes you so special.

Christi Barth

#8. As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Ryan Holmes

#9. There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.

Mike Berry

#10. People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!

Dada Bhagwan