Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

Ron Fournier

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Stefan Molyneux

The only freedom is freedom from illusion...

Thomas Fuller

Health is just not valued until illness comes.

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Robert Anton Wilson

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Rob Lowe

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

Sarah Dessen

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Rod Serling

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Voltaire

All is but illusion and disaster.

Winston Churchill

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Werner Heisenberg

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Samuel Richardson

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Salma Hayek

I was an illegal immigrant.

Lily King

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Terry Bradshaw

Depression is a physical illness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Ram Dass

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

Leonard Peltier

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Marcia Angell

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

Roger Zelazny

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Simon Schama

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Tony Judt

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Sigmund Freud

We must love or we grow ill.

Scott Walker

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

Rick Riordan

WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Reese Witherspoon

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Steven Spielberg

Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.