Top 16 Lord Of Illusions Quotes
#1. If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusion
well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
Lord Byron
#2. On March 4, 1981, Burlington elected him mayor - by a margin of ten votes out of more than 9,600 cast.15 ("Ten anarchist votes!" Murray would say. "And I know who they were!")
Janet Biehl
#3. I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.
Daniel Barenboim
#4. But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann
#5. I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.
Edward Hirsch
#6. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
Tom Robbins
#7. It is difficult and painful for the ear to listen to anything new; we hear strange music badly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able to participate.
Colm Toibin
#9. And so I'll wish you safe wonderings, an utter absence of distasteful suitors, and many more days of sunshine for your hatless head.
Kiersten White
#10. There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane Austen
#12. My life," she said dramatically, with her eyes closed, "is one heaping bowl of warmed-over despair, seasoned with equal dashes of aggravation and angst!
Rick Detorie
#13. The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.
Lord Acton
#14. You can't have life without the genetic code.
Craig Venter
#15. Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Lord Byron
#16. At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Lord Chesterfield
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