"I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination."

-- Colm Toibin

#Strong Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Visuals Quotes

“If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!”
“I think itâ€™s important to make all women feel like theyâ€™re princesses, because every girl is a princess. Iâ€™m serious.”
“It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.28, New Directions Publishing
“I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.”

Source : "Amy Grant: 'Somewhere Down the Road'". CBNmusic Interview, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
“Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.”
“Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.”

Source : Leo Strauss (2013). “Persecution and the Art of Writing”, p.37, University of Chicago Press
“The American dream belongs to all of us.”

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