Best 1115 quotes in «imagine quotes» category

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.

The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

They are self-loathing people, these leftists. I can't imagine what it would be like to get up and live their life every day. To have to be mad all the time, at everybody else, knowing full well you are a failure and having the inability to do anything about it because you will not look at yourself. You gotta blame George W. Bush or you gotta blame corporations, or you have to blame somebody. Blame talk radio.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

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 us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?