Quotes About Imago

#1. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid

#2. A metamorphosis ... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

Plato

#4. In Greek, Humanity, anthropotita, is female and it feels suitable
to call her a she from now on. She is all. She is the poet of
the universe, She is the image that god was crafted to resemble.
She is the Imago Dei.

Christos Tsotsos

#5. Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

#6. He's an Imago," Adam repeated. "They kill humans, or use them as blood banks."

"You speak as if humans do not do that to each other," Rekesh commented. "Not all Imagoes choose to be evil, as not all humans choose to be good. ~Rekesh and Adam

Annabell Cadiz

#7. When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.

Harville Hendrix

#8. Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

J. Budziszewski

#9. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

Dionysius Cato

#10. [...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.

David Dark

#11. An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life.

Haruki Murakami

#12. The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

Phillip Thomas

#13. Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness!

Akuku Mach Pep

#14. Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.

Levon Helm

#15. What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

Murray Rothbard

#16. Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

#17. Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life; the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven't done enough.

Allison J. Kennedy

#18. Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree.

James W. Mercer

#19. Yea! I believe that He who made the skies
Is wonderfully good, and very wise,
Beloved Friend! Hast thou never seen
The tears of pity gather in His eyes?

Omar Khayyam

#20. The result often leaves those forced to deal with bureaucratic administration with the impression that they are dealing with people who have for some arbitrary reason decided to put on a set of glasses that only allows them to see only 2 percent of what's in front of them.

David Graeber

#21. All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Maynard Webb

#22. Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.

Amy Bloom

#23. [...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

David Dark