“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.” MenGivingFirstsCertainValuesRaceImagineIgnoranceDutyGeniusFameCriticsEnvyAmusementPreyAvenuesHinderReceptionSentinels Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.” WorldNeedsHumansFactsDreamValuesHuman BeingsImagineCreationCivilizationWorthyMagnitudeHuman ValuesAwesome Things Author:Vanna Bonta
“Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.” ValuesHouseWaitingImagineCapablePicksWinterBusyAfternoonImagine ThatIncapableDoing NothingDisturbedFluLurkingKnack Author:Lionel Shriver
“Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.” PeopleWellsValuesImagineLimitationDramaticRealising Book:Reflections Source: Reflections
“[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” ThinkingWarAmericaValuesCulturePresidentImagineRootsAmerican Values Author:Mark Penn
“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.” WantYearsMeanMadeValuesCoursesFoundWishClearImagineLettersDestroyed Author:Gretl Braun