Quotes
Quotes about Nation
And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us-- Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say) That which, please God, we will keep for aye Our National Independence!
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day sensesâthose are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination is the air of mind.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
