Imagine Quotes - Page 4

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Names, Diversity

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• Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

  Horace Walpole

  People, Giving, Weakness

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• We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imagination, Fortune, Fortunate

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• Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Desire, Common

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Men, Views

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

  Kate Morton

  Unique, Way

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.839, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.

  Russell Crowe

  Dream, Vision

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• However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tragedy, Overcoming, Different

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• What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

  Ted Nugent

  Meaningful, Thug, Government

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Being Yourself, Able

  Caroline Leavitt (2007). “Girls in Trouble: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

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• Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

  Marianne Williamson

  Imagination, Experience, Wonderful

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• I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.

  Victoria Redel

  Letting Go, People, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Imagination, Identity, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, Simple, Trying

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

  Wayne Coyne

  Moments, Novel

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

  Madeleine Albright

  Father, Raised, Statues

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• It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

  Oliver Stone

  Tough, Film, Hated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. 

  R.K. Narayan

  Intelligent, Men, Differences

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

  Alan Watts

  Safety, Painful, Found

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Flower, School, Reality

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