Illusions Quotes

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Words are illusions.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.