Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with… — Robert Breault
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties,… — Kurt Vonnegut
The imaginary expression âˆš(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some… — Augustus De Morgan
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others,… — Walt Whitman
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment. — Ken Keyes Jr.
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. — Ginnifer Goodwin
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of… — Derek Tangye
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,… — John Green
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested… — C.S. Lewis
There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary — Aron Nimzowitsch
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the… — Charlotte Dacre
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from… — James Madison
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… — Christopher Isherwood

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