Playing Mantis

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Do not pray for easier lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F Kennedy

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

He's a player you only miss when he's not playing. - Graham Taylor

Don't be afraid to pray big prayers, we serve a big God. - Unknown

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

Are we playing Men's Rules today or do we count every putt? - Unknown

Never pray to win, but to do your best - for God has no favorites. - Dorothy I. Welker

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if he wanted to be one? - Jackie Mason

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. - Saint Augustine

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. - Albert Camus

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung