Generally, if you look at present-day trends, you can predict the future. Very few people do that, because I've been told that… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
I think that right now the West understands Russia better than before and feels a much greater wariness toward it. I think… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In… — Carl Theodor Dreyer Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel,… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view.… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it… — Frank Oski Copy Share Image
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
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![“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that…” quote by John Maynard Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b2/john-maynard-smith-28856_argument_this-argument-that-life-is-too-improbabl_1662785.jpg)
![“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fe/benjamin-franklin-65_atheist_my-dear-friend-do-not-imagine-that-i-am_1638238.jpg)
![“Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've…” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f88/hal-holbrook-17109_age_why-do-i-keep-performing-at-my-age-what_2677226.jpg)
