Top 1200 Illusion Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.

It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

My company was based in Palm Beach, Florida, but when 'Bar Rescue' took off, I knew I had to move west. It was a choice between L.A. and Vegas. I have a lot of friends in Vegas, and it became my choice. I'm so glad because I love it here. There's a real sense of community. It's a big town that feels like a small town. Everybody knows everybody.

An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.