I Quotes
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“I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.”
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
Source: The Price of Creation
“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.”
“I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.”
“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.”
Source: Streaks of life
“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.”
“I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.”
“I can imagine playing in America.”
“I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.”
“I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.”
“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“I can imagine that there's a lot of hate right now. If it ends up turning people against each other then I'm petrified; I'm sickened to think that we will allow those murderers to end up winning.”
Source: Does My Head Look Big in This?
“I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.”
“I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.”
“I can imagine when you get into heaven and God says to you.
I gave you a beautiful body to be adored, womb to reproduce, private parts to have sex, mind to think, a heart to be in love, a life to live, time to enjoy, Age to grow, Mouth to talk. Feelings to share with others. You were supposed to create moments and memories with someone special in your heart, mistakes to learn, emotions to experience, talent and skill to show and share. what happened , why didn’t you use them. And your responds will be Matthew 25:24-27 . You were afraid of failure, setbacks, heartbreak, shame, to be embarrassed, to feel, to be judged, to make mistakes then you decided to hide , play it safe and not to use what God gave you and blessed you with.”
“I can imagine you and us a million ways here, Thomas. I will make my home where you are, because you are my home. I don't know any way to say it any more clearly. So now the ball's in your court.”
Source: Rough Canvas
“I can imagine you, Shun and Nozomi, having read this far, thinking 'but will making one little story into a picture really be able to express a problem so huge?' This world is made up of little stories. Those modest daily lives, those lives that may seem insignificant, they give the world shape — that's what I believe. Don't you think that presenting small stories in details is precisely the most certain way to depict huge things?”
Source: Soul Lanterns
“I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.”
“I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.”
“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”
Source: Autobiographies
“I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.”
“I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”
“I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.”
“I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.”
“I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.”
“I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.”
“I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.”
“I can jump ship and swim--
that the ocean will hold me,
that there's got to be more
than this boat I'm in.”
“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.”
Source: X
“I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.”
Source: The Rift
“I can just close my eyes and let myself fall into oblivion. Maybe I'll hit the exact same rocks and my blood will mingle with his and maybe there's some kind of life after death and he's waiting for me there with his hand outstretched just like mine.
But...
I don't want to die.
I try to twist my body backwards and pain shoots up my neck.
It's too late.
I chose life too late.”
Source: Undone
“I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.”
“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I can just imagine the cricket household at sunset:
"Oh man, it's late!!"
"Hey, you chirp I'm tired"
"Besides, the later bug becomes a rug!!"
"You just had to bring up Uncle Phil didn't you?”
“I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.”
“I can just put my head down and train hard.”
“I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.”
“I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.”
“I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.”
“I can keep my head together in a crisis.”
“I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.”
“I can keep them forever this way. Perfect. Not rotting. Not gone. Not like the others who disappear and leave nothing behind.”
Source: Ghoul Car II: The Midnight Run
“I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.”
“I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".”
“I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.”
Source: Vigilante Day
“I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.”