#illusion

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#after #because #bit #career #disillusioned

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

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. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#bottle #doing #eat #food #friends

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. ↗

— Judy Garland

#dies #how #illusion #lost #strange

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#illusion #lost #novel #title

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#disillusioned #house #i #knowingly #later

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#expression #here #human #illusion #intellectualism

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#reality #torah #world