#magic

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#another #because #believed #capability #could

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#learn #magic #poverty #pretty #solution

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#believe #cars #cling #convictions #drive

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#difficulties #disappear #effect #magical #obstacles

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#magick #equality

The magic of creation has always fascinated me. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#creation #fascinated #magic #me

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. ↗

— David Blaine

#create #hand #i #idea #illusion

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #magic #man #mankind #sanity

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#close #half #hall #house #i