Imagine Quotes
3981 Imagine quotes by 2627 unique authors
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made…
— Walter Lippmann
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Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.…
— Walter Lippmann
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For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy,…
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of…
— Sam Vaknin
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with…
— John Fowles
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Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our…
— Ariel Dorfman
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you…
— Ric Ocasek
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But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by…
— George Berkeley
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must…
— Henrik Ibsen
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How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off…
— Dwight L. Moody
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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a…
— Gianfranco Ferre
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I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody…
— Howard Dean
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So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not…
— William Lane Craig
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Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which…
— Clement Greenberg
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As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will…
— Jeremy Denk
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
— Cynthia Ozick
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These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these…
— Tom Seaver
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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental…
— Edward Sapir
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You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
— Rosie O'Donnell
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When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't…
— Steve Vai
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Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright…
— Ann Demeulemeester
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It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,
— Ted Olson
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