Delusory Define Quotes & Sayings

The dancer's grace and, forty years on, her arthritis - both are functions of the skeleton. It is thanks to an inflexible framework of bones that the girl is able to do her pirouettes, thanks to the same bones, grown a little rusty, that the grandmother is condemned to a wheel chair. Analogously, the firm support of a culture is the prime condition of all individual originality and creativeness; it is also their principal enemy. The thing in whose absence we cannot possibly grow into complete human beings is, all too often, the thing that prevents us from growing. — Aldous Huxley

I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed. — Sarah Dessen

Everywhere you find yourself a great opportunity for you to manifest agape love and give. This must be your lifestyle everyday. — Paul Silway

He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics. — Kenneth Eade

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice. — George Cheyne

Three hours later the two men were calling each other Harry and Allan, which goes to show what a couple of bottles of tequila can do for international relations. — Jonas Jonasson

Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look. — Mocco Wollert

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases. — Ronald Reagan

Only a mental illness is not like a disease of the body, where there's something wrong with your lungs or there's something wrong with your diet, and you are just a reasonable person with a defect. When you're mentally ill, you are the defect; you are broken, fundamentally flawed, and you cannot be trusted with anything, not even your own treatment. You need a support system to make sure you don't fuck it all up. — C. Lynn Schneider

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. — Sigmund Freud

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis — George R R Martin

The urge to climb will never be explained. In olden days, perhaps it was a wish to reach the stars. Today, anyone so minded can buy a seat on a plane and feel himself master of the skies. Even so, he will not have rock under his feet, or air upon his face; nor will he know the silence that comes only on the hills. — Daphne Du Maurier

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. — Bob Ehrlich

Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him. — Paul Chappell

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. — Jennifer Stone