Playing Mantis

We have to pray on behalf of those who do not pray. - Mother Teresa

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. - Philip Brookes

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. - Pope Francis

Show me a good loser and I'll show you a man playing golf with his boss. - Unknown

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. - Bill Bradley

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. - Bobby Orr

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. - Steven Wright

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Managing only for profit is like playing tennis with your eye on the scoreboard and not on the ball. - Ichak Adizes

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky