“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.” UseOpportunityImagineMissingEternalSatisfactionPunishmentRepentanceSentimentsBenevolenceScarceMissing It Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.” IfsWorldTryingMadeLightMovingRealizingViewsImagineEternalApproachEternitySpeedPoint Of ViewConventionsSlow DownRelativityCompletionDualismSpeed Of Light Author:Terence McKenna
“Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between.” KnowsInspirationalFirstsLastsEnergyImaginationReligiousForeverImagineCreationEternal Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.” IfsGivingShouldWellsMayStatesFeelingsHeavenSunImagineTreeObjectsSweetFlowerEternalBlessedShiningFruitGoldenSilverOrangeLoadedMetaphoricalGroveFruitionAllusion Author:Humphry Davy
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” KnowsEndsDreamDesireDifficultImagineChildhoodComfortableEternalDisappearLife And DeathYearningAdolescence Author:Hugh Hefner
“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.” FirstsHumansChildrenSeemsSpiritualIndividualParentHuman BeingsWalksViewsStepsClearImagineEternalAppetiteFirst StepsSteps ForwardEagerness Book:Grace Notes Source: Grace Notes