Top 1200 Illusion Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.

Our options oftentimes on foreign policy are not a choice between a good one and a bad one. It's a choice between two less-than-ideal options. And you're trying to figure out which is the least harmful of the two. And I think that's something we should be encouraged by, not something that we should be critical of.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

I had to learn how to dress and create an optical illusion where you're more slender.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.