#illusion

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#box #check #fence #forward #illusion

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#big #big shot #coming #experience #faith

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away. ↗

— Mario Monti

#away #budget #clearly #europe #fiscally

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#father #illusion #love #matches #mother

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#amount #artists #back #columbia #companies

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ↗

— Javan

#illusion #just #just be #magic #sometimes

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#composed #experience #illusions #our #rather