Top 100 Quotes About Imagine
#1. Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
Marsha Blackburn
#2. We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine.
Russell D. Moore
#3. As you can imagine, they got along great, though how they got any sleep with Hyperion glowing all night and Theia giggling, "Shiny! Shiny!" I don't know.
Rick Riordan
#4. Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.
Christopher Walken
#5. Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
Paul Davies
#6. The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves ... because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.
George Lucas
#7. Imagine what we would accomplish together if we left our egos at the door.
Robert M. Drake
#8. Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
Walter Savage Landor
#9. I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
Rabindranath Maharaj
#10. I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. At least the man had the sense to admit it.
Alan Bradley
#11. Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.
Ann Aguirre
#12. Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.
Gus Van Sant
#13. I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
Terry Brooks
#14. Were you really that powerful before?" Esrahaddon showed him a wicked smile. "Oh, my dear boy, you couldn't begin to imagine.
Michael J. Sullivan
#15. No," De Roos said. "You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash - not just for them, but, as you can imagine, for me. I'll see you later.
Mark Helprin
#16. If you want to know how I felt, imagine your own feelings on waking one morning to find that income tax or unrequited love had somehow vanished from the world.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.
Merlin Mann
#18. -Imagine a world without the arrogance of the young.-
-Imagine a world without the greed of the old.-
Pierce Brown
#19. Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.
Jane Austen
#20. Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb? ... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?
Laini Taylor
#21. We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.
Paul Bloom
#22. Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
Tobias Wolff
#23. The possibility of losing him is 100 years of solitude I don't want to imagine.
Tahereh Mafi
#24. In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
Rand Paul
#25. A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch ... or a baton ... or something.
Mo Rocca
#26. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#27. Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
Arthur Judson
#28. The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#29. Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
Mike Medavoy
#30. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt ... and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.
Suzanne Collins
#31. It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
Jon McGregor
#32. To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
Muhammad Yunus
#33. The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
Tom Robbins
#34. Can you imagine doing something in your life that will be fully satisfying and redeeming for your having tried to do it, whether you succeeded in it or failed, and that, correspondingly, would be fully shameful had you not tried to do it?
Padgett Powell
#35. Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?
Ann Coulter
#36. Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel Foucault
#37. so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable.
Lana Wachowski
#38. Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
Todd Solondz
#39. It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
L.M. Montgomery
#40. At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
David Sedaris
#41. Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#42. November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
Gladys Taber
#43. Hence the reason I encourage you to believe what you wish. The heaven of teh Pastafarians is supposed to have beer volcanoes, which sounds like a fantastic idea to me. Imagine eruptions of a mellow chocolaty stout. There might be all-you-can-eat hot wings."~Atticus
Kevin Hearne
#44. Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#45. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
Sylvia Plath
#47. Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew
Karel Capek
#48. These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our
George Eliot
#49. I open my eyes. Yech, boyfriend thoughts, the kind I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's one thing to imagine Shane naked and slathered in olive oil, but another animal entirely to picture us cuddling.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#50. We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision ... not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.
Seymour Papert
#51. You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
Eddie Cibrian
#52. The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni
#53. You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
Jeff Hawkins
#54. In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
Michio Kaku
#55. It was a conceit to imagine that they knew the world; that they knew its every detail. Forces ever worked unseen, in elusive patterns no mortal mind could comprehend.
Steven Erikson
#56. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.
John Lennon
#57. The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
Robert Webb
#58. ...he does not stir. She bows her head, looks at him, hugs him to her belly and weeps. No-one could imagine the depths of her misery.
Pierre Lemaitre
#59. I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.
Miranda July
#61. Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.
Milton William Cooper
#62. I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
Joseph Barbera
#63. The doctrine of the Trinity ... is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
Ryan Gosling
#65. I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But
Charles Dickens
#66. The beautiful, affectionate man from earlier had vanished. This Zack I could imagine on the battlefield.
Sofia Grey
#67. Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
Eknath Easwaran
#68. Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#69. Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.
Jake Halpern
#70. What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. When things go really wrong just imagine how interesting it will be as a chapter in your autobiography.
Gary Edward Gedall
#72. We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#73. It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.
Edward Felten
#74. Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
Martha Beck
#75. I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
Jack Gleeson
#76. The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.
Craig Callender
#77. It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.
Michel Houellebecq
#78. The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself ...
Harry Browne
#79. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.
Dan Lyons
#80. There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.
Michelle Bachelet
#81. What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.
Elizabeth Dole
#82. Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand.
Diana Gabaldon
#83. I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.
George R R Martin
#84. I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'
Steve Largent
#85. Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
Alma Gluck
#86. I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
Matthew Shipp
#87. Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for, the face shatters, every time.
Andrew Holleran
#88. I imagine the ones we've lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that's terrifying, and sometimes it's reassuring, a promise of homecoming.
Ann Aguirre
#89. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#90. I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia Sotomayor
#91. My life, between 22 yards for 24 years ... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.
Sachin Tendulkar
#92. It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.
Makoto Shinkai
#93. Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#94. Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.
Sarah Willis
#95. One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.
Rachel Klein
#97. You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam Chomsky
#98. Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
Meg Whitman
#99. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.
DJ Spooky
#100. I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
Romeo Dallaire
