Pastoral Resources

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.