Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. — Omar Bongo
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. — Andre Breton
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. — Paula Abdul
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no… — Emile M. Cioran
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken
You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external… — Wallace D. Wattles
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,… — Eva Hoffman
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head… — William Shakespeare
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith. — George Santayana
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. — Helen Keller
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. — George Santayana
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by… — Julian Bond
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,… — Kate Chopin
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how… — Henry Ward Beecher
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his… — Charlotte Mary Yonge
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary. — Thomas Betterton

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