#visions

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en me retraçant ces détails, j'en suis à me demander s'ils sont réels, ou bien si je les ai rêvés"). As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#dreams #imagination #magic #visions #writing

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled ↗

— Allama Muhammad Iqbal

#future #iqbal #poetry #revolution #visions

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#divisions #easiest #race #stupid #very

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#civil #concerns #constitutional #constitutional rights #facts

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

-age's lust loose! ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#improvisions #kora #age

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#dreams

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bought #got #investment #liquor #money

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? ↗

— Russ Feingold

#bankruptcy #community #doing #doing the right thing #entire