I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.
You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again. " Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.
Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.
Imagining something is better than remembering something.