Necessary Illusions Quotes

#1. History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Howard Nemerov

#2. Necessary illusions enable us to live.

Ingmar Bergman

#3. Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.

Andrew Crofts

#4. I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

Phil Taylor

#5. I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Grandma Moses

#6. You with the stars
in your eyes
put them back
in the sky.
You're ruining it
for the rest of us.

Pamela August Russell

#7. It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

Samael Aun Weor

#8. The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

William Hazlitt

#9. In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of human affairs-becomes, when the change is very fast, not a stabilizing conservatism but a form of deception resembling lunacy.

Laurence Lafore

#10. Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water
I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he said.

Susan Choi

#11. Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not.

Mike Huckabee

#12. Darling' there're things I haven't told you yet either, just didn't know how to broach the subject. We can't know everything about each other by writing a few letters and having dinner once." - Chance Holcomb

Caroline Fyffe

#13. Do all your eating at a table.

Michael Pollan

#14. Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Charles Spurgeon