Imagine Quotes - Page 23

• Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Perfection, Littles, Fabulous

  15 Copy quote

• The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

  Ruth Reichl

  Simple, Oil, Perfection

  9 Copy quote

• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Heaven, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

  Anne Frank

  War, Air, Talking

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.77, Hamilton Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to
  destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Civilization

  7 Copy quote

• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

  George Eiferman

  Beach, Men, Lakes

  10 Copy quote

• How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Beautiful, Life Is, Dare

  20 Copy quote

• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

  263 Copy quote

• When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

  Lucy Grealy

  Beautiful, Feelings, Ugly

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

  Naoki Higashida

  Would Be, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

  Daniel Cormier

  Commitment, Mma, People

  52 Copy quote

• The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

  David Petersen

  Strong, War, Answers

  6 Copy quote

• For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians

  Justin Martyr

  Christian, Taken, Men

  Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.98, Aeterna Press

  122 Copy quote

  Show source

• Working was a new thing; waking up early in the morning and going to bed late at night... But I’ve met a lot of nice people, I've been to New York, London, Paris. I like traveling. Now I cannot imagine my life without modeling.

  Barbara Palvin

  Morning, New York, Nice

  30 Copy quote

• If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.

  Buckethead

  Journey, People, Bags

  80 Copy quote

• What we imagine in our minds becomes our world.

  Masaru Emoto

  Our World, Mind, World

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  Norman Rush

  Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

  Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dog, Lonely, Intelligent

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2014). “All The Dogs Of My Life: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.42, Hachette UK

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater

  Otsuichi

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

  6 Copy quote

• I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Jesus, Stars, Believe

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.

  Lady Gaga

  Light, One Day, Would Be

  "Lady Gaga overtakes Obama on facebook: fans weigh in!". MTV news staff, www.mtv.com. July 07, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.

  Jennifer Garner

  Baby, Husband, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

  Brad Paisley

  Depression, Dark, Stuff

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source