Pastoral Resources

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.