Quotation Explorer - 'Imagine'

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. - Brian Andreas
If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself... - Luigina Sgarro
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. - Lewis Carroll
Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can’t see. - Debasish Mridha
The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine. - Fernando Pessoa
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. - Guy Vanderhaeghe
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy. - Bo Lozoff
I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this: the twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you, the knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god. - Marie Lu
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. - Cynthia Ozick
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso
If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire. - Orson Scott Card
We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things? - Christian D. Larson
She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables. - Anthony Powell
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. - Dr. Frank Crane
Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you. - Mark W. Boyer
I imagine, therefore I am. - Debasish Mridha
I am not apologetic. I don’t define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me. - Debasish Mridha
Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something. - Donna Lynn Hope
Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder
God is a symbol of imaginative power; he has as much power and love as you can imagine. - Debasish Mridha
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view. - Susan J. McIntire
Imagine about anything instead of assume about it. - Savan Solanki
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. - Marvin Minsky
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. - Quentin Crisp
Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none. - Yuval Noah Harari
But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? - Andrew Hussie
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. - Sigmund Freud
Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue. - Mary E. Pearson
Imagine and see yourself at your best. Change yourself with hard work, to become the excellent person you want to be. - Mark F. LaMoure
Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer? - Gary Haugen
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. - Marcus Valerius Martialis
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. - Ephesians 3 2021 NIV
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France
We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. - Julia Quinn
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person. - Beth Kephart
Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine. - Auliq Ice
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. - Ryan Lilly
Imagine yourself in a parallel universe. Imagined? Now either attain or forget it. - Alexander Zalan
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. - Alan Moore
We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine. - Ellen J. Barrier
Imagine What the Future Holds - Michael Harris
Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The best lessons I’ve been taught is that you should definitely have a plan. Try to imagine yourself six months in advance, and always save your money. Because there are always going to be unintended expenses that are going to come up. Surprises always happen. - K. Guillory
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory - Lin-Manuel Miranda
How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence. - Juan Díaz Canales
To imagine is to risk being mentally blind. - Ogwo David Emenike
‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best. - Jestoni Revealed
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. - Simone Weil
An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church. - Wayne Cordeiro
In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine. - Sanhita Baruah
How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change. - Seneca
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my life creating, yet she was pristine the likes of which I could never fashion. - Hubert Martin
I can sit here and say I've survived heart break and all those nights I thought I couldn't bare to live without you, yeah I just want to thank them, because I did & now I couldn't imagine a life with you. - Nikki Rowe
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. - L.M. Montgomery
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. - Thomas Sowell
Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon - Roger Lowenstein
Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in. - Ryan Henry Ward Artist
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. - Seema Gupta
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. - G. K. Chesterton
Some people seem like a bright light during your darkest moment.. A beautiful refuge… but it’s a trap… there is only more pain there. Now that I think about it… I imagine that’s what bugs feel like when they fly into the zapper. - Steve Maraboli
Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese? - Emily Matchar
We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing. - M L Stedman
We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa’s sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story! - RYCJ
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower
How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, "Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you. - Jayde Scott
Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine. - Toni Coleman
I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong - Sanhita Baruah
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful. - Ellen DeGeneres
He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance. - Steve Goodier
Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…was himself. - Ivy Yuelle
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. - Isaac Asimov
Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise? - Debasish Mridha
No one in this room is identical. We all have something unique to offer. It is the responsibility of each of us to realize what that is to fulfill our destiny. Imagine the awesomeness the potential we would have if we worked together for a change. - Aaron B. Powell
The journey has many bumps, twists and turns. But one day you will reach your destination. You'll know for sure then that it was all worth it. So keep on trusting and keep on walking. The end will be more glorious than you can imagine. - Anusha Atukorala
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Arthur Eddington
You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened... - Susan Meissner
to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible. - Robert Krulwich
Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles. - Sheila M Burke
Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding! - Israelmore Ayivor
And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities. - Alan Moore
There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two. - Carl Henegan
He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows. - Oscar Wilde
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity. - Robert Fanney
Sending love to a situation is really simple and works wonders. All you have to do is think of the situation and imagine it surrounded by a light that reminds you of love. - Kyle Gray
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. - George Orwell
Imagine reality,reality will imagine you. - Rajesh Walecha
She was learning that being with Slade was like riding a roller coaster. Good news one minute and bad news the next. She could only imagine what this restaurant must be like. - Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence
When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine. - Nouman Ali Khan
Can you imagine life without a book? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Just imagine a mental health status of a person who could accept award without deserving it and then exuding happiness and even expressing thanks to the audience. - Anuj Somany
I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life. - Kamand Kojouri
A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. - Tommy Lee Jones
You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right. - D. Antoinette Foy
It was easy to imagine he’d just rolled out of bed and then it was easy to imagine him in bed and I wasn’t going there. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t. - Colum McCann
Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. - Lewis Carroll
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life. - Eustace Conway
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?" Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi. - J.C. Joranco
The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine. - Tim Fargo
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. - Lilith Saintcrow
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H. L. Mencken
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear. - Susan Taylor
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop. - Charles F. Glassman
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. - John Irving
drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer. - Samuel Beckett
The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with what I eat. - Mindy Kaling
Life without you? Actually I can’t imagine what it would be, because you are always with me, you’re like my guardian angel and above all a very fun and responsible friend. I love you. - Auliq Ice
The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist. - Nelson Rodrigues
Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from which resurrection springs. - Ben Palpant
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing - Glenn Greenwald
Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope. - Judy Blume
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. - H. L. Mencken
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. - David Sedaris
There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better. - Stewart Stafford
Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder. - Debasish Mridha
What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. - Amy Leigh Mercree
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more. - John Green
And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. - Jacob Bronowski
He saw beauty where no one could imagine it. And for that reason it was his alone. And he was its. - Jo Nesbø
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia."Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked me the first time."Otto smirked, "Well I have no idea why. - Otto Ray and Amelia Raht
Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs. - Ace Antonio Hall
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. - Kurt Vonnegut
Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life. - Mark Miller
Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine. - Sara Sheridan
Imagine life as ... black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect. - Ibrahim Khidair Ali
Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world. - Fredric Jameson
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine. - Louis Aragon
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it. - Dean Cavanagh
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that. - Stephen King
But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine. - Robert Frost
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free. - John Taylor Gatto
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. - L. M. Montgomery
Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with hard work to become excellent. - Mark F. LaMoure
The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Imagine the possibilities of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it. - Newton Kibiringi
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line. - Tom Robbins
When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice. - Debasish Mridha
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. - Lao Tzu
When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? - Michael Crichton
Sometimes It feels like time is an evil clown that we always imagine. It gives you everything you ask for, and when you are about to happily embrace every gift that you have received it snatches away everything laughing and clapping at you, watching you fall on your knees and break into pieces. - Akshay Vasu
I love just to love.I love just to feel.I love just to realize.I love just to dream.I love just to imagine. I love just to see.I love just to be. I love just to be the love. - Debasish Mridha
Some people seem like a bright light during your darkest moment... a beautiful refuge... but it's a trap... there is only more pain there. Now that I think about it... I imagine that's what bugs feel like when they fly into the zapper. - Steve Maraboli
Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. - Orrin Woodward
If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to be in the right place at the right time, there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain. - Daniel Willey
If you love someone you would do anything for them right?Now imagine you are that someone. Give yourself the gift of everything you want - Derric Yuh Ndim
...What's more, I live in Berkeley, California. If princesses had infiltrated OUR little retro hippie hamlet, imagine what was going on places where women actually shaved their legs! - Peggy Orenstein
Love is like the senses of the body.Imagine you are blind, you can see an object using touch. You can feel around it and see it mentally.Now imagine you can't feel, but can see. You can't feel what you see.You may see love, but not feel love. When you feel love, you also so see it. - Blake McCormick
Man, free thinker!Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions. - Gérard de Nerval
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more. - Anne Tyler
I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want. - Alice Walker
Quite amazing, isn’t it, Mister Lipwig?’ he said cheerfully through the smoke. ‘Though isn’t it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can’t imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable. - Terry Pratchett
The sensation that you experience in the body, is your spirit, but it’s so attached, that it’s hard to imagine, that the sensation can ever be separated from the physical body. In long hours of meditation, you can separate your sensation from the physical body. - Roshan Sharma
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. - J. K. Rowling
I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice. - Alice Sebold
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable. - Randy K. Milholland
Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we appreciate each other's differences; one in which we are all equal but definately not the same. - Barbra Streisand
I wish in the city of your heartyou would let me be the streetwhere you walk when you are mostyourself. I imagine the houses:It has been raining, but the rainis done and the children kept homehave begun opening their doors. - Robley Wilson
Imagine, then think, then desire, then dream, then act to achieve and it will be yours. - Debasish Mridha
Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day. - Stephen C. Lundin
Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight. - Hannah Wright
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty. - Jeffrey Tucker
Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. - Frank A. Oski
I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?". - Clayton Montgomery
You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…is himself. - Ivy Yuelle
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul. - Carlos Barrios
Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life. - Abhijit Naskar
Say all the bad things you can imagine so they won't happen. - Anonymous
Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. - José Ortega y Gasset
What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe. - Patricia S. Churchland
Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live! - Helen Deakin
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence. - Kedar Joshi
I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship. - Robert Galbraith
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - Vladimir Nabokov
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. - Marcel Proust
I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science. - Lorrie Moore
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward
She didn’t want to die. She couldn’t imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people. - Agatha Christie
I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known. - Robin Caldwell
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. - Raheel Farooq
I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them. - Nina LaCour
If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for. - Laurance Kitts
I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future. - Joshua Rogers
Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. - Yoko Ono
And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams. - Marilynne Robinson
The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The only thing I’ve desired is what I couldn’t even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream. - Fernando Pessoa
Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries. Cuz that'll mean that we're one step closer to humanity. - Prince Ea
Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood?
The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world. - Debasish Mridha
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me so much of themselves, helped me find so much of me, and always been there to support when I needed it most. #BandOfBrothers. - Ted Rubin
As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin
A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future. - Gracia Hunter
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. - N. Scott Momaday
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Papa said that I should never be jealous of another's marriage. Whatever joys I imagine them having are just my imaginings. The reality is far more complicated and vast. - Laura Moncur
Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Just imagine. The world is in your heart. 01.07.11 - VicDo
To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts. - Emilyann Girdner
The world is more beautiful than anything I can imagine; and so I open my eyes. - Marty Rubin
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. - Thomas Carlyle
If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what you look and see, use your minds eye and not your eyes - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell
You can go as far as you think, imagine and dream. Anything is possible. - Lailah Gifty Akita
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine. - Gregory Maguire
You are prettier than you can imagine. - Debasish Mridha
I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am - Ernest Holmes
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. - Arthur C. Clarke
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. - Anne Enright
The downside, my beauty, is that you’re in a fogged glass bubble that’s as far out of my reach as I can imagine. I wish you would use your gaudy engagement ring to cut a hole through the glass to be able see me. - A.Wilding Wells
Well, you’ve taken a weight off my mind.A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear greatweights. - P.G. Wodehouse
Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way. - Staci Backauskas
Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest. - Vinita Kinra
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it. - Arthur Golden
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. - Richard Bach
Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas
Your mind can imagine what others cannot.Your heart can sense what others cannot.Your soul can receive what others cannot.Your feet can go where others cannot.Your hands can do what others cannot. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water. - Vinita Kinra
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past. - Ruth Reichl
When you delete impossible from your thinking, you give yourself permission to imagine, to believe, to try, and to accomplish phenomenal things. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics. - Simon Soloveychik
My heart aches for you! But don't despair! I am persuaded you will come about! Recollect what the poet says! I'm not sure which poet, but very likely it was Shakespeare, because it generally is, though why I can't imagine! - Georgette Heyer
It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable. - Michel Houellebecq
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. - Jef Raskin
Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action! - Ron Baratono
We have a saying in the desert: It is better to see the truth, than to imagine it. - Amber Jacobs
Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on. - Paulo Coelho
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. - Iain M. Banks
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. - Frida Kahlo
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. - Henrik Ibsen
I thank you wholeheartedly because you cannot imagine all the happiness you are giving me. - Auliq Ice
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. - John Burroughs
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Start dream building. Create your goals in the real world. Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with inspiration and work to achieve excellence for success. - Mark F. LaMoure
Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication into excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy doing the process. - Mark F. LaMoure
The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening. - Keysha Jade
We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own. - Brian Andreas
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that. - Mark Vonnegut
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. - Robert Byrne
Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want to be. Where I want to be, it's just a matter of having the imagination to do so! - Zachary Frerichs
Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle. - Ogwo David Emenike
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to. - Giles Andreae
Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine... - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. - Jack Miller
Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform - Norman Mac Donald
The chandelier's teardrop crystals twinkled above them like stars. It was easy to imagine that they were miles away from London, and that only the two of them existed. - Anna Bennett
Just imagine you are dying tomorrow. Everyday. You will be much kinder to the world, there will be more love in you. That way. - Minhal Mehdi
"Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness. - Mary Oliver
Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practiced consistently in every home. Our young people could be like Helaman’s army: invincible (see Alma 57:25--26). - Larry R. Lawrence
Start dream building. Bring your goals into the real world. Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work to achieve excellence. - Mark F. LaMoure
[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments. - Lawrence Lessig
Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew - Karel Čapek
Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow - Munia Khan
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. - Henry George
Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....
We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent. - Ellen DeGeneres
Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death - Jarred Cole
There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. - Auliq Ice
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that. - Sarah Rees Brennan
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. - John Scalzi
You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself. - Lacey Sturm
Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes. - Michael A. Arnzen
Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness. - Egor Kraft
I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret - Lloyd Alexander
Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.
To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. - Albert Einstein
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes. - Auliq Ice
What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
It's hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross," Moore argued. This pride doing things our way instead of following God's plan - Russell D. Moore
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep. - Andreas Harpas
When intent is rooted in pure love, you dreams will grown and manifest faster than you could ever imagine. - Dawn Gluskin
Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change. - chocolate socrates
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? - L. M. Montgomery
If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine. - Abhijit Naskar
Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there. - Abhijit Naskar
Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable - Munia Khan
Your dreams will come true- If you put your mind to it. Your fantasies not. They only help you imagine that things are better than they really are. - Yalda Walinezjad
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be? - Earl R. Smith II
I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it. - Debasish Mridha
Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It's speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when it appears. Awareness and Creation are inseparable. - Franklin Gillette
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. - Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book. - BeaOngjoco
Imagine, visualize and foresee the life you want and make sure in doing so, you don't get lost in between ! - Bhavesh Gandhi
I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos. - Lady Gaga
Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.The Killer Hook - Michael Chabon
I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. - Scott Westerfeld
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. - Don DeLillo
I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation. - Jean Thompson
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. - Abhijit Naskar
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