Imaginary Quotes - Page 10

• Do not be content with an imaginary god.

  Allen Grossman

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• Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Real, Use, Today

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.133, Harmony

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• The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Imagination, May, My Imagination

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• They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.

  Marjorie Garber

  Wise, Dog, Real

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• If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

  Don Herold

  Mistake, Ice, Rivers

  "If I Had My Life to Live Over" by Don Herold, www.beliefnet.com. October 1953.

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• Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

  Martin Amis

  Moving, People, Profound

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Advice, Speech

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Knowing, Personality, Quality

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• I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

  Don Herold

  Block, Light, Hands

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• For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Winning, Space

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Love Is, Creating

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: denisdutton.com

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• The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfection, Gita, Krishna

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Order, Numbers

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

  John Adams

  Evil, Madness, Folly

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, America, Being Different

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

  Laura Miller

  Real, Convince Us, Roots

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• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, School, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gun, Reality

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• Men suck, even imaginary ones

  James Patterson

  Men

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• Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

  Lev Grossman

  Intelligent, Tree, Would Be

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.225, Penguin

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