"You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination"

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Source : Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1808). “The wild Irish girl: a national tale”, p.58

Sydney, Lady Morgan

#Good Friend Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Mind Quotes

“When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.”
“Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.”
“Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.”
“That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.”
“In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.”
“...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.”
“[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.”
“Directors, like actors, get typecast.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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