Imagine Quotes - Page 33

• Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  Venus Williams

  Almost Perfect, Order, Play

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• The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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• Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

  Christine de Pizan

  Doe, Rakes, Skirts

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• My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mother, Kids, Ideas

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.145, Crown

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• Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

  Lewis Black

  Earth Day, Drug, One Day

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• He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

  Paracelsus

  Fruit, Grapes, Strawberries

  "Paracelsus: Selected Writings".

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• You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

  Franz Liszt

  Children, Prodigies, Spoil

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• Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
  They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
  Love them no matter what.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hurt, Would Be, Matter

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• I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

  Usain Bolt

  Spiders, Scared, Bigs

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• The more you know, the better you can imagine.

  Twyla Tharp

  Knows

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• The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Eye, Wrath

  "The Merciful Obtain Mercy". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

  Edward Smith

  Safety, Gone, Ships

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• The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct.

  James Cameron

  Sky, Lasts, Billions

  "'Titanic': James Cameron Moves the Stars for Film's 3-D Release" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.

  Tim Cook

  Apples, Giving, Goal

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• It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.

  Boris Johnson

  Queens, Cheer, Fall

  Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2002.

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• People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

  Nick Harkaway

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Law, Humanity, Mind

  "Cover Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Photo Hacking a ‘Sex Crime’". www.vanityfair.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

  Amber Heard

  Sex, Race, Certain

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• As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

  Glenn Greenwald

  Sex, Political, Energy

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• It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Vanity, Odds

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Eye, Police, Ministry

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• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

  George Sand

  Thinking, Soul, Age

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• A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Flames, Hatred

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