#red

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #insight #prediction #imagination

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. ↗

— Jan Morris

#love #mystic #reduce

I’d always imagined that I’d come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity. How embarrassing. ↗

— Kate SeRine

#red #transplanted-tales #imagination

There are plenty of good reason for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. "It's that part of an imbecile," I said, "that punishes and vilifies and makes war. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#make-war #imagination

The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit. ↗

— Dwight Morrow

#divided #get #into #people #things

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boredom #hell #imagination

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'. ↗

— Graham Greene

#imagination

My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner—financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy—so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared.When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess. ↗

— Jancee Dunn

#prepared #imagination

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#blessing #curse #every #ignored