Imagine That Quotes - Page 27

• And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Loss, Government, Long

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.238

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Crush, Zero, Mistake

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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• Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

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• Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?

  Herbert Schiller

  Shopping, Atmosphere, World

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading that Iraq is part of the Islamic world instead of mentioning that we are part of the Arab nation, as if they want us to be linked to Iran and not to the Arab nation.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Reading, Islamic, Iran

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• A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Different, May

  YouTube Channel "American Film Institute"/"Orson Welles Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975", www.youtube.com. February 02, 2011.

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• It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

  David Bentley

  Garden, Sprung Up, Atheism

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• This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.

  David Bentley

  Art, Prayer, Simple

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• Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Smartphones, President, Hook

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Suffering, Imagine

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• 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

  Funny, Powerful, Humor

  US Magazine, January 1995.

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• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  Immanuel Kant

  Light, Air, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

  Barbara Smoker

  Moving, Atheism, Way

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• To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

  Barbara Smoker

  Wise, Prayer, Hymns

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• I'd be the first one to tell you that I would like to think that I had called timeout before that. I can't imagine that I did not. I can't tell you that I did, and that's my issue.

  Les Miles

  Thinking, Lsu, Issues

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• You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Real, Sight, Smell

  "Michael Mann, Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang, and Tang Wei Talk Blackhat, the Genesis of the Film, Creating a New Film Genre, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memorial, Opinion, Improvement

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

  Matteo Manassero

  Football, Hate, School

  "Matteo Manassero confident he can live up to his reputation at US Open". Interview with Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

  Peter Kuznick

  Thinking, People, Dreamer

  "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Life, Dream, Real

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• metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Mother, Kings

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.27, Paulist Press

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• I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". The CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Views, Political

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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