Imagine Quotes

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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do… — Epictetus
I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy. — Nolan Ryan
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read… — Helen Oyeyemi
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated… — Alfred Stieglitz
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I… — Gloria Steinem
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they… — Erica Jong
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,… — Edward Abbey
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we… — John Banville
There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for… — George Jones
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without… — Robert Adams
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly,… — Kurt Vonnegut
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved… — Arthur C. Clarke
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. — James Lane Allen
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do… — Joan Didion
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act — Jurgen Habermas
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. — Fredric Jameson
I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow… — Hans Christian Andersen
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more… — Manny Farber

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