"I'll not punish you for having an imagination."

-- Betty Smith

#Imagination Quotes

“I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”
“Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.”
“He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.”
“(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.”
“Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client.”

Source : Roger K. Lewis (2013). “Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession”, p.285, MIT Press
“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.”
“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.”
“She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.143, Xist Publishing

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