Imagine That Quotes - Page 4

• Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Evil, Want

  Dean Koontz (2010). “Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, Book 3)”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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• To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Struggle, Water, Would Be

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1991). “Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries”, Harvill Press

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• We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Epic Poems, Usual, Ruts

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1256, Wizio Publishing

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• There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

  Larry Niven

  Men, Animal, Space

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.232, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Fall, Pieces

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.172, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Moving, Skills, People

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• Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Buttons, Lord Henry

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

  Marcel Proust

  August, Gentleman, Littles

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2149, Delphi Classics

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• I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

  Henning Mankell

  Shoes, Feet, Facts

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Nov 28, 2012

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• It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

  Miley Cyrus

  Love Is, Stories, Our Love

  "Miley Cyrus writes about being bullied in new book" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 4, 2009.

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• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

  Vasily Grossman

  Wonderful, Forget, Imagine

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

  Alice Sebold

  Life, World, Imagine

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

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• There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39

  Alain de Botton

  Inspire, One Day, Swiftness

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• You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Long, Doubt, Papa

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• It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Love Is, Stories

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• A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Prayer, Order, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rain, World, Imagine

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.465, Scholastic Inc.

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• specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

  Max Weber

  Heart, Civilization, Levels

  Max Weber (2012). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rain, Boys, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.465, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

  Francine Prose

  Book, Reading, Might

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

  Libba Bray

  World, Sixteen, Imagine

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.1, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Taken, Long, Suffering

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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