Quotes with imaginary

  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

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  • Brandon Sanderson ... imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.
    Warbreaker (2009) Lightsong the Bold
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Marquis de Sade Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Georges Bataille Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Beth Ditto Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Augustus William Hare How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • John Ruskin Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Sher Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Anne Sullivan It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Anne Tyler It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Maya Angelou Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Bill Cosby The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Aaron Machado The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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