Imagine Quotes - Page 30

• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

  Chip Heath

  Knowledge, Knows, Hard

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.20, Random House

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• I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!'

  Robert Pattinson

  Careers, Sick, Acting

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• We just believed in ourselves, and we knew that we had an entire city and maybe an enitre country behind us. What can I say? I tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time, and it's better than expected.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Country, Inspiration

  "New Orleans celebrates Super Bowl win like it's Mardi Gras". Interview with Brigid Glanville, www.abc.net.au. February 8, 2010.

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• I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Story Writers, Doe

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• In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Keys, People

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• I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.

  Michael Dorris

  Humility, Native American, Past

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• The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

  James Hansen

  Children, Energy, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stress, Men, Abnormal

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• Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Hate, Defense

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Beautiful, Black History, World

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• Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

  Paracelsus

  Writing, Fruit, Grapes

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Looking Back

  Journal, July 1922

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

  Jean Anouilh

  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Thinking, Odds

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

  Carl Jung

  Tasks, Answers, Might

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Political

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• Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Color, Differences

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Air, Community, Use

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• Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Views, Hands

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• The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Strong, Brother

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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