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“An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”
Source: Self-reliance, and Other Essays
“An imaginative mind is a place where you can find magic.”
“An imagined evil can be worse than the real thing.”
“An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.”
Source: Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we’ve already got them in Hell.”
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
“An imbalance in our economy is an imbalance in our relationship with the world. As we change, our world changes”
Source: Joyful Economy
“An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.”
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.”
Source: Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works
“An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.”
“An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“an imitator is always a poor example.”
“An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“An immaterial soul that influences our body and a God who intervenes in history alike make physical claims. Yet whoever claims causal efficacy must submit to physical scrutiny.”
Source: The Unowed Universe: A 21st-Century Philosophy Grounded in Science
“an immeasurable tragedy:
I will love you for the rest of my life
and
you will not be here for any of it.”
“An immense amount of growth is to be had whenever we actively seek out our goals.”
“An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.”
“An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.”
“An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.”
Source: Letters
“An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”
“An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.”
Source: The Book of Snobs
“An immigrant? An immigrant feels like when you go to the movies and you get there late. You can’t see, and the people are not happy you’re there. The movie has already started, and you missed parts. You have a lot of catching up to do if you’re going to get it, and you need to find your place in the dark without stepping on people. Then, if you find your place, shut up and pay attention; you might get what the movie is all about.”
Source: Cuban American Dancing On The Hyphen
“An Immigrant's Plight (The Sonnet)
With hopes and dreams brimming in my heart,
I have traveled across miles and miles.
A single desire for a flame of acceptance,
Still burns bright in my heart's aisle.
You say home is where the heart is,
But my heart is accused of difference.
Sometimes I'm accused of faith or race,
Other times they question my allegiance.
Amidst the illusive fog of color and geography,
When did humanity cease mattering most!
Sentiments and dreams have no borders,
Character isn't exclusive to any single coast.
We’ve wasted enough time on labels and covers,
It's time to be family filling the world with colors.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.”
“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.”
“An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except in God Himself. True religion begins in the heart. It is not a mere set of rules to be obeyed-an example to be copied. It is Christ coming into the heart and dwelling there.”
“An immortality of sorts
A Plan B and every plan thereafter.”
Source: Wilding of this Hagstone Heart
“An immovable object and an unstoppable force
don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.”
“An impact is like a punch it may hurt put it passes.”
“An impactful opinionated view is the right mixture of knowledge, interest, intent, and money.”
“An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.”
“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.”
“An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.”
“An imperfect decision made in time was better than a perfect decision made too late. Ref. German mission command.”
Source: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
“An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”
“An impersonal sexual orientation, which is typically associated with desires for a relatively large number of sexual partners, creates a high likelihood of rejection experiences… A relatively heightened sensitivity to rejection may lead to a subjective perception of frequent rejections irrespective of the objective reality.”
Source: Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives
“An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.”
“An implicit foundation of assumed security has slowly grown beneath our feet so that we believe we will go forward together through whatever stumbles may come.”
“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.”
“An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.”
“An important aspect of Lamentations is the challenge to accept historical reality and to embrace God's sovereignty over history. We are called to lament over suffering and pain, but also to recognize God's larger work.”
Source: Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.”
“An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.”
“An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.”
Source: Somewhere Towards The End
“An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.”