Top 100 Never Imagined Quotes
#1. When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.
Jay Leno
#2. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
Nicholas Sparks
#3. Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
Joe Nichols
#4. What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualification may be the desire to learn.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#5. I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
Stevie Wonder
#6. I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.
Amanda Holden
#7. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.
Cassandra Clare
#8. I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#9. Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#11. We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
Clayton Christensen
#12. He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her.
Nicholas Sparks
#13. If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.
Neil Turok
#14. Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full.
Rachel Caine
#15. The doors of opportunity don't stay open long enough for us to ignore them today and return tomorrow. They shut for reasons we never imagined." Ray White
Ray White
#17. I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
Luis Suarez
#18. Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.
Michelle Obama
#19. That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.
Anne Perry
#20. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
Mathieu Amalric
#21. The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It's the karma effect, Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.
Stefania Mattana
#22. When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu
#23. Let my words give you sustenance, nourish your spirit, and take you places you've never imagined.
Not just for today when you've read them, but for whatever forever we have in this life.
Or the next.
Raven West
#24. I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.
Rob Sheffield
#25. You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree."
One of the giants grinned at him.
Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
Terry Pratchett
#26. You think you have enough to worry about, but then you think of a possibility you'd never imagined and you realize you have even more problems.
Anonymous
#27. Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
Foxy Brown
#28. When you love, you open yourself up to numerous vulnerabilities and worries and responsibilities you never imagined existed because suddenly there's someone else in the world who's more important to you than you are. That's what makes it so tough.
Linda Kage
#29. . . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in her romance, and the villain made her feel things that she had never imagined she could experience.
Anna Zaires
#30. He'd known the headland was undercut from years of waves and weather, but he hadn't expected to trigger its complete collapse. Shoving the wall over had been merely an attempt to complicate the situation. He'd never imagined ... this.
Mary Jo Putney
#31. Nature was beautiful in a way he'd never imagined, but this...this was life.
Kass Morgan
#32. He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
Colum McCann
#33. We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
Arthur Golden
#34. Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#35. I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.
Billy Graham
#36. Because that's what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things you never imagined you would or could. They let you feel heartbreak you've never had and experience adventures from the safety of your own room. They are dreams for those who are still awake. They
Jodi Picoult
#37. But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines were bored and dissatisfied, Erika says women her age treat the duties of the home as outlets for their creativity.
Emily Matchar
#38. I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan
#39. If you had asked me the day before whether high school could get any worse, I would have bet you everything I had that I had sunk to the lowest I could get. Yet here I was, at a whole new sub-level I had never imagined.
John Goode
#40. It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
Thomas Haden Church
#41. Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy
#42. We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill
#43. I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.
Blake Mycoskie
#44. What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
Martha Beck
#45. I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I'm humbled that you chose me.
Abbi Glines
#46. It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.
John Christopher
#47. The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
Ernest Becker
#48. Technology is linking us in ways we never imagined possible: Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and others - all blend to create a web of interconnected minds.
Dan Brown
#49. I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
Jessica Chastain
#50. You'll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they're not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They're small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.
Heather McVea
#51. I'm already someone else, but the person I turn into at these low points is someone I never imagined I could be a few years ago: someone with a hot knot of fury where her heart used to be.
Harriet Lane
#53. I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
Anna Faris
#54. I'd never imagined I'd become the ambassador of housewives.
Mona Singh
#55. He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he'd never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.
Christine Feehan
#56. If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
George Benson
#57. She made him want to lose control, something he never did. She also made him want things he'd never imagined for his own life, like a family and someone to come home to every night.
Katie Reus
#58. John and Jenny's planes arrived in Rome only hours apart. They had never imagined, when they walked away from each other graduation night 1960, it would be forty years and five thousand miles away before they would meet again.
Thomas Allen
#59. West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.
Shane McAnally
#60. Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn.
Phil Plait
#61. If it's a phase, so what? If it's your whole life, who cares? You're destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you've got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you've been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love.
Gabby Rivera
#62. I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
Josh Gad
#63. I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation.
Shirley Manson
#64. He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.
John Boyne
#65. I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
Columba Bush
#66. Of all the things her father had done to her, she'd never imagined he'd marry her off to the Marlboro Man.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#67. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.
Emma Donoghue
#68. I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.
Karlie Kloss
#69. I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.
Hayley Kiyoko
#70. I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.
Simon Sinek
#71. When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
Emily Berrington
#72. I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
Franz Kafka
#73. I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.
Armin Zoggeler
#74. When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.
Augusten Burroughs
#75. But what I never imagined was that I'd find you.
Kim Holden
#76. I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.
Jennifer Lawrence
#77. I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined.
Tara Sue Me
#78. It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
Elayne Boosler
#79. I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.
David Mitchell
#80. You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me.
D.C. Akers
#81. This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more buzz than anything else I've ever done. I had no idea that it was going to turn into this phenomenon.
Cassie Scerbo
#82. I never imagined being undead would be so much work," Jeff lamented.
"Being a 'vampire' takes no work at all," Timothy emphasized vampire. "It's surviving that takes all the work.
Ben Tousey
#83. I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.
Jencarlos Canela
#84. Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving.
J.K. Rowling
#85. I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.
Ronaldinho
#86. Obstacles on our path are some of the tests of life. They make us stronger, better people and open up doors we had never imagined.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#87. Yoga is the technology of upgrading, activating, and refining these inner energies for the highest possibilities. Suddenly, your capabilities reach a level of brilliance that you never imagined possible. An accidental and limited life turns near-miraculous. But
Sadhguru
#89. Writing my own novels in the '90s ... I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Mary Doria Russell
#90. I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
Haley Bennett
#91. I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney
#92. Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.
Oprah Winfrey
#93. Froi thought for a moment. I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt lying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her.
Melina Marchetta
#94. She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either
a purely human one.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.
Steffan Rhodri
#96. I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.
Joel Edgerton
#97. First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson
#98. Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it - along with everybody else - and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that one.' But I didn't really see myself on 'True Blood.'
Denis O'Hare
#99. She never imagined she would get her first true kiss in the secret tunnel, surrounded by strange men. At least it was memorable.
Melanie Dickerson
#100. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
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