Quotes for All
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and … Read more
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible. Eric Foner
An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage. Eliyahu M. Goldratt
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime – they pass forgotten. Frederick Lenz
The 1990’s will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it’s fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won’t happen in one day. Frederick Lenz
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 Hayek
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it – illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up. Francesca Lia Block
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