Best 1115 quotes in «imagine quotes» category

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Can you even imagine not hugging?

But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

Can you imagine saying ‘Hi’ to Sam Jackson and he goes and gives you a hug? It’s like being hugged by a lion.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would offered much in the way of determined opposition. William Herndon said that they always thanked the Lord when a corporation came knocking at their office door to hire them.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?