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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Allah says Jannah is awesome, imagine how awesome that is when the All-Knowing is calling it awesome

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

All that you can imagine you already know.

And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

As you can imagine, with Hillary Clinton being here, security is very tight. The Secret Service has been here all day sweeping the halls, the offices, the hard drives... It's tight.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.