Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
The way to be happy is to take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in imagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.
There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of.
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions...
I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.
Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
