Pastoral Resources

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.