"It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe"

-- Christopher Paolini

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.
“Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.”

Source : Robin Cook (1982). “Brain”, p.144, Penguin
“With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.”
“I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.”
“I've not had a mean life.”

Source : "Sissy Spacek Talks ‘My Extraordinary Ordinary Life,’ Hollywood Stereotypes" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?”

Source : Naomi Alderman (2012). “The Liars' Gospel”, p.123, Penguin UK
“I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
“Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44

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