Quotes tagged ‘Delusion’

“[to the Lion] As for you, my fine friend, you're a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.”

— Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan, imdb.com

“And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-…”

— Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson, imdb.com

“Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, The Architect, Helmut Bakaitis, imdb.com

“You live under the delusion that you can fix everything that isn't perfect.”

— Sara B. Cooper, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com

“Sharon Marsh: Sheila, I was just wondering if you might know why my son is trying to split his head open with an ice pick? Stan: [screaming] No! I have to get it out!”

— David A. Goodman, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Sharon Marsh, April Stewart, imdb.com

“The Court must be living in another world. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.”

— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org

“Like a woman...who will submit to the strong man rather than dominate the weakling, thus the masses love the ruler rather than the suppliant, and inwardly they are far more satisfied by a doctrine which tolerates no rival than by the grant of liberal freedom; they often feel at a loss what to do wit…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Erotomania has very little to do with sex. It's a romantic or spiritual connection that erotomanics crave. Victims of the delusion tend to be from a higher social status and have done very little to stimulate or encourage such a belief.”

— Sharon Lee Watson, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Having some ambition that transcends just making money is a critical thing for a company. But there is some point where it gets crazy and self-delusional.”

— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com

“Vision without execution is delusion.”

— Norm Kelly, twitter.com

“What's in that bottle? Delusion?”

— Adam Glass, Crowley, Mark Sheppard, imdb.com

“In the case of a work which is a mere exhibition of skill in conventional art, there may be some excuse for the delusion that the longer the artist works on it the nearer he will bring it to perfection. Yet even the victims of this delusion must see that there is an age limit to the process, and tha…”

— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org

“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”

— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.”

— Marilyn French, amazon.com

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.”

— Marilyn French, amazon.com

“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

— Paul Watzlawick, goodreads.com

“Whatever you believe about yourself on the inside is what ultimately manifests on the outside. Positivity is the only way forward and a little delusion never hurt anyone.”

— Akif Kichloo (via AKIFKICHLOO), akifkichloo.com