Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

The House Guest: Pathway to Persuasion

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

The Iron King

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

If I Were a Man

Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be, but it can be damn close if we learn to accept the scary parts or the ugly parts.

Isn't It Pretty To Think So?

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

I'll Be There

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.

Imagination and Time

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

The Inn at the Edge of the World

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

So maybe now I might be imagining what it would be like to kiss him again, but that didn’t mean anything.

Just Watch the Fireworks

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

Keep a Quiet Heart

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Kora in Hell

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Role Models

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Rizal without the Overcoat

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

Raventide

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things.

Rework

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Sexing the Cherry

There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.

Someplace to Be Flying