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.
An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Hollywood is a mirage factory.
Armstrong lives as he rides - surrounded by a cocoon of aides and helpers, his gimlet eyes focused on victory. . . . The self-described atheist has become a deity. . . but the inquiry's findings may cause the Armstrong faithful to ask, Was the miracle a mirage?
The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.
If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.
It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.
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.
The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.
I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
