Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

Taraji P. Henson

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Arthur Henderson

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

David K. E. Bruce

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refra...

The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Culinary Tale from Zamonia by Optimus Yarnspinner

Everyone thinks that it was the big strong caveman who got the girl, and for the most part, that may have been true, but physical strength doesn't explain how our species created civilization. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at ...

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Jesus said, " I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself," knowing that the nature of a forgiving Christ on the cross would compel people to follow Him. As long as the church remains an effective platform for God's light to re...

The Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

It is important to note that the lampstand in the tabernacle did not cast a broad light, illuminating everything in the tabernacle; the focus of its beam was specifically on the bread of presence. Likewise, the church is not called to illuminate ever...

The Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...

When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully come back to both Jesus and my senses. But it's not like that. I can't ima...

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

David." "Nobody home but you and me," he said, nibbling at her jaw, her throat, her mouth as he guided her out of the kitchen. "You know what I was thinking the other day?" "No." How could she? She didn't know what she was thinking right now. "That i...

The Villa

When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already ...

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

I have always felt that suicide was connected to communication. Not due to a lack of opportunity, but to an impossibility to communicate and be understood. It can be frustrating to try to share something with somebody, something important and real to...

Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that passed, I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. It wasn't that something had happened. It was worse: I'd become awa...

The History of Love

Narrator: The day before he died was Palm Sunday. And Mr. and Mrs. Howard, their two children and their cousin Charles Johnson strolled to the second Presbyterian Church to attend the 10:00 service. Bob remained at the cottage and slyly migrated from...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant ...

Aleksandar Hemon

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.

CHIMERAS

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Capitola's Peril