Imagine Quotes - Page 36

• The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Mind

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• Domestic violence affects many young people, whether in their relationships with each other or if they have grown up with violence in their homes. From playing Ste on Hollyoaks I can imagine how frightening it would be to have him as a boyfriend. Violence and bullying in relationships is always unacceptable. Everyone should Expect Respect in all of their relationships, and not only expect to be respected but to give respect to others as well.

  Kieron Richardson

  Bullying, Home, People

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• We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Black, Able

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.32, Jules Verne

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune.  But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Long, Looks

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• Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

  Robert Spencer

  Community, Peaceful, Majority

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• Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

  Tony Judt

  People, Inability, Alternatives

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

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• Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  Venus Williams

  Almost Perfect, Order, Play

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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• Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

  Christine de Pizan

  Doe, Rakes, Skirts

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• He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

  Paracelsus

  Fruit, Grapes, Strawberries

  "Paracelsus: Selected Writings".

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• You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

  Franz Liszt

  Children, Prodigies, Spoil

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• I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

  Usain Bolt

  Spiders, Scared, Bigs

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• The more you know, the better you can imagine.

  Twyla Tharp

  Knows

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• The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct.

  James Cameron

  Sky, Lasts, Billions

  "'Titanic': James Cameron Moves the Stars for Film's 3-D Release" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.

  Boris Johnson

  Queens, Cheer, Fall

  Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2002.

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• People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

  Nick Harkaway

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Eye, Police, Ministry

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• A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Flames, Hatred

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• There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.

  Gayl Jones

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Girl, Teenage, Men

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• I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.

  Ursula Hegi

  Writing, Character, Audience

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