Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 424 authors

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. — Ambrose Bierce
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from… — Blaise Pascal
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It… — Stephen Hawking
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only… — Leo Tolstoy
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. — Seth Godin
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no… — Stephen Hawking
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances — Sanford Meisner
Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea… — Wayne Dyer
Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but… — Seth Godin
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in… — William Maxwell
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. — Gay Hendricks
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C.S. Lewis
The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way.… — John of Kronstadt
We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! — Catherine DeVrye
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite… — C.S. Lewis
A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image,… — J I Packer
Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off… — Maryrose Wood
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo

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