Imagine Quotes - Page 27

• I will be as callous and
  uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health
  care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.

  Steve Lonegan

  Hate, Cancer, Care

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• Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually come to pass, often in fabulous ways, but their adventures feel inevitable and true-not only because Ms. Black richly imagines her people, but because she loves them. I Knew You'd Be Lovely is a lovely debut, with masterful prose and inspired invention on every page.

  Ralph Lombreglia

  Dream, Real, Adventure

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Way, Compassionate, Higher

  Rachel Held Evans (2014). “Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions”, p.64, Zondervan

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• History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

  Guy Vanderhaeghe

  People, Historical, Fiction

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• I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it.

  Marek Siwiec

  Party, Hands, Civilization

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• Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

  Luis Fernando Verissimo

  Believe, Don't Believe, Ifs

  Luis Fernando Verissimo (2012). “Borges And The Eternal Orang-Utans”, p.65, Random House

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• Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

  Beth Kephart

  Song, Giving, Body

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Responsibility, Choices, Decision

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• Adventures are funny things.
  Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
  But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
  And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
  Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Funny Things

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2006). “The Final Storm”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

  Edith Grossman

  Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure

  Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

  Dave Grohl

  Angel, Thinking, Clouds

  Maxim Magazine, January 2008.

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• I have demons you can't even imagine.

  David Fincher

  Demon

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• Imagine you're a girl,
  just trying to finally come clean,
  knowing full well they'd prefer you
  were dirty and smiling.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Dirty, Knowing

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold their hand. If they then try to kiss you and you don't like it, you can push them over. If your aunty gives you a Christmas present that you're not too keen on, you can throw it back in her face and burst into tears. You can gallop freely. You can skip. Children have got it right. The tragedy is, none of this is permissible as an adult. Although one thing surely is – and I'll bet you know what I'm going to say – that's right, the galloping. Such fun!

  Miranda Hart

  Children, Fun, Party

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.214, Hachette UK

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• Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Doe, Flukes

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• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Kids, Capes, Littles

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

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• I couldn't imagine a home without animals.

  Amanda Burton

  Home, Animal

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

  Barry Lopez

  Fall, Ignorance, Land

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Thinking, Everyday

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• I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  New York, Cutting, Thinking

  "Surprise Trip for Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Brigadier General James Marks; Christian in Iraq". "News from CNN", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2004.

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• More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

  George W. Bush

  War, Two, Way

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.913, Government Printing Office

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