Quotes of: Imaginative Keyword

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.

Contact

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

Clockwork Prince

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Critique of Pure Reason

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

City of Lost Souls

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

The Curse Of The Wise Woman

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

A Dance with Dragons

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them

Dead To Me

The rain thundered down so heavily that Pritam could imagine that space itself was made of water and was pouring through rents in the sky's tired fabric.

The Dead Path

I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.

Dracula

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

Eclipse

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Eating the Dinosaur

I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.

Embracing the Darkness

Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.

In Evil Hour

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The Educated Imagination

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

Envy