Walter Brueggemann Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Brueggemann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malachy McCourt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Najat Vallaud-Belkacem 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Rickenbacker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hari Kunzru 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Woetzel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Allan Poe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Jung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Fillion 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Wade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. C. Watts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Flannery O'Connor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elisabeth Tova Bailey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jennie Finch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brett Favre 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rick Danko 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Brueggemann