Pastoral Resources

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.