We Imagined Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.
— Jean Kwok
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The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine…
— Wright Morris
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There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we…
— Denis Johnson
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I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring…
— Henry Knox
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No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
— Carl Sagan
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As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.
— Neil L. Andersen
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There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's…
— David
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where…
— Mitch Albom
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We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion…
— Shonda Rhimes
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We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared…
— Patti Smith
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This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody,…
— Jandy Nelson
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We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to…
— Joan Didion
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We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we…
— Julian Barnes
Who Wrote These We Imagined Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 We Imagined Quotes as follows: