Quotes with imagine

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  • Kurt Vonnegut We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Noam Chomsky We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Joan Didion We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Cullen Hightower We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bell Hooks What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
    Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2013)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Julius Caesar What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Okri When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carla Bley When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Boomer Esiason You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Emma Thompson You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
    Emma Thompson
    British actress and screenwriter (born 1959) (1959 - )
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  • George Eliot You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Pablo Picasso Everything you can imagine is real.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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