quotes about Mirages
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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
-- Anton Chekhov -
But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
-- Chris Gardner -
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
-- David Mitchell -
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I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
-- Dennis Rodman -
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
-- Douglas HofstadterSource : Douglas R. Hofstadter (2008). “I Am a Strange Loop”, p.363, Basic Books
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An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
-- Friedrich August von HayekSource : "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part 2: "Politics". Chapter 8: "Economic Freedom and Representative Government", pp. 110-111, 1978.
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God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.
-- Kenneth Rand -
[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.
-- Lorraine Hansberry -
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
-- Mary Balogh -
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They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.
-- Miki Dora -
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
-- Paul RicoeurSource : Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage (2008). “Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation”, p.379, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
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Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
-- Robert Breault -
You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
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Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.
-- Steven Furtick -
How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.
-- Amy Hill HearthSource : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
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Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
-- Louis L'Amour -
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.
-- Paul S. Kemp -
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Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.
-- Penney Peirce -
Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.
-- Hendrik Tennekes