Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and...

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other...

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

When we are no longer children we are already dead

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.

That is exactly how long I plan on keeping you.

The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality or truth that is not a construct: ‘en-theo-gen’ is less ‘enthused by an...

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn’t bring you up to have one

The 20 grand Window really caught the imagination of the public and once Gerry and Michelle were chosen as the contesting couple reaction was absolutely huge.

Credeam ca vrea sa calatoreasca, dar imi spune adevaruri pe care le stiu deja, ca nu e nevoie sa plece de pe insula ca sa vada lumea, ca are destule mari si orase in minte....

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons...

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination

Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth.

Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the foot of his bed, against the wall or painted onto it perhaps, not...

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

One’s thoughts are one’s most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you...

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration.

We haven’t seen the worst case scenario by any stretch of the imagination,

Only worry about what you absolutely know about,’ Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. ‘That’s the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion....

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and...

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it...

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with...

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don’t live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the...

Where do you get dreams like this?

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the...

I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach...

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the...

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene....

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a...

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.