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Whatever man imagines is possible -- Julie Andrews Edwards
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. -- Henry Ford
Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are. -- Dolly Parton
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to. -- Saul Bellow
like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ... -- Joyce Carol Oates
Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision. -- Terry Carr
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. -- Wendell Berry
No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy. -- Janet Fitch
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. -- George Bernard Shaw
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. -- Hallie Ephron
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still. -- Mooji
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy. -- John Marshall
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. -- Jane Austen
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart. -- Yukio Mishima
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. -- Samuel Johnson
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. -- Martin Luther
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. -- Peter Shepherd
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. -- Theodore Martin
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. -- Paracelsus
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair. -- Frederick the Great
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen. -- Joyce Meyer
It is an awesome thing to comprehend that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. -- Vanna Bonta
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine -- Alan Turing
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. -- Sam Harris
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. -- Woodrow Wilson
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James A. Baldwin
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. -- Po Bronson
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. -- Max Weber
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. -- William Shenstone
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods. -- Charles Lindbergh
If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves. -- Neville Goddard
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. -- Pattiann Rogers
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to spend a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment. -- Maxwell Maltz
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. -- James Lane Allen
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. -- Lance Armstrong
She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies -- Mavis Gallant
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. -- George Orwell
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before. -- Paul Harvey
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. -- Andre Gide
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be. -- Allan Massie
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still. -- Louis Pasteur
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it. -- Niki de Saint Phalle
Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free. -- Bill Gates
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth. -- Moses Hess
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. -- Ernest Hello
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. -- Eric Temple Bell
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
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow. -- Sophocles
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. -- Paul Brunton
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. -- William Wirt
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world. -- George Friedman
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. -- Arthur Cecil Pigou
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real. -- Simon McBurney
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there. -- Celeste Ng
A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama. -- Ann Burton
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. -- Christos Yannaras
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences. -- Jacob Epstein
I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else. -- Larry Gelbart
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it... -- Akiane Kramarik
Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way. -- J. Budziszewski
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. -- Rene Descartes
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery. -- Lisa Lang
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery. -- Lisa Lang
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet. -- Wallace Stevens
and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit. -- Allen Ginsberg

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