#prop

All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property. ↗

— Kate Grenville

#imagination

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. ↗

— Joan Chittister OSB

#justice #possibility #prophet #prophets #vision

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. ↗

— Gabriel García Márquez

#life

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cant #excess #expression #language #moderation

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#prophecy #life

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. ↗

— George Eliot

#correction #motive #prophecy #life

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. ↗

— George Eliot

#prophecy #life

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest. ↗

— David Gemmell

#fait #gods #life #people #prophecy

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ↗

— Gideon J. (Gideon John) Tucker

#liberty #life #property #life

Not like this. He wanted it to be real. ↗