“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?” PeopleIfsBelieveFeelingsFacesGirlBehindsVisionImagineYouthFairsMovedWeatherPrimitiveSympatheticEighteenWoven Book:Romola: In Two Volumes Source: Romola: In Two Volumes
“We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.” WayMeanTogetherNationsLevelsImagineFairsDiverse Author:Mark Takano
“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.” MenWayLooksSoulLightLyingImaginationStepsImagineHe ManFlowerSorrowMusicianSingingBirdFairsDearDelightGrassBitesSinging Birds Book:King Richard II: Third Series Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?” YoungNamesRoomsLordBoysImagineMetsFairsEastTrialsThrownOscarsPlatoCurtainsOxfordWildeEnderNoblemenBraille Author:Quentin Crisp
“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?” IfsChristianSoundImagineSubjectsPositionIgnoranceFairsEmptyTheologyIgnorantFairyImagine ThatAccusedHammersAstrologyThrustDisbeliefVikingsCoherenceChristian TheologyVacuous Author:Richard Dawkins