Imagine That Quotes - Page 23

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

  Richard Bach

  Inspiring, Courage, Imagine

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.114, Delta

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• Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Anniversary, Marriage, Congratulations

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Self, Dying

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Wall, Zion

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.70, Barbour Publishing

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• We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

  Brad Warner

  Believe, Somewhere Else, Choices

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."

  Brian X. Foley

  Education, Cousin, Uncles

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• It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Mind, Church

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• My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Years, Yards, Imagine

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• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Sex, Party, Gay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.

  Jeff Galloway

  Hills, Imagine, Steep

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• It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.

  Edward Sapir

  Patterns, Different, Would Be

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• As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Blind, Imagine

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• We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Ears, May

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• I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

  David Chase

  Lying, Talking, Imagine

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

  Maimonides

  Views, Evil, Judgement

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.301, Behrman House, Inc

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• We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Names, Common

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Moving, Mind, Looks

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• Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

  Ada Lovelace

  Errors, Giving, Letters

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• You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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• If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

  Ryan Adams

  Blow, Night, Bills

  Live performance at Chicago Theater, September 29, 2007.

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• Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.388, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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