Holding On

I hate holding grudges. - Engelbert Humperdinck

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. - Thomas Paine

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Forgiveness is for YOU, not the other person. Holding a grudge weighs down your spirit and can make you become a person you don't want to be. - Joanna C Smith