Holding On

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge. - Robin Williams

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

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. - Orhan Pamuk

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges. - Zachery Ty Bryan

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. - Earl Nightingale

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

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

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

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. - Mordecai Richler

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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