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#nation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #nation




Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ↗


— John Milton


#forget #her #how #live #nations

Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh, I know that. It's old hat." And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart. Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you? ↗


— Brennan Manning


#love #prayer #imagination

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ↗


— William Joyce


#nicholas-st-north #north #ombric #pretending #rise-of-the-guardians

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement. ↗


— Ann Patchett


#imagination

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗


— Michael Ondaatje


#toronto #toronto-literature #imagination

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. ↗


— Edith Grossman Why Translation Matters


#literature-in-translation #imagination

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗


— John Waters


#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗


— William Joyce


#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. ↗


— Leonard S. Marcus


#fantasy #fiction #on-fiction #imagination

You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not saying stuff I think you want to hear in order to manipulate you. I can't be any more honest than this. I'm yours, baby. I'm putting it out there. My heart, my soul, it all belongs to you. ↗


— Maya Banks


#imagination






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