Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what. — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation...… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
