I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head―that is, these nerves are there in the brain... (damn them!) there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soon as they begin quivering... that is, you see, I took at something with my eyes and begin quivering, those little tails... and when they quiver, then an image appears... it doesn't appear at once, but an instant, a second, passes... and then something like a moment appears; that is, not a moment―devil take the moment!―but an image; that is, an object, or an action, damn it! That's why I see and then think, because of those tails, not because I've got a soul, and that I am some sort of image and likeness. All that is nonsense! Rakitin explained it all to me yesterday, brother, and it simply bowled me over. It's magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man's arising―that I understand... And yet I am sorry to lose God!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean looks like.
The girl frowned.
I can’t imagine it, she said.
No, said the man. You can’t. Not until you see it. And hear it. And smell it.”
Source: The Bear
“Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.”
“Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.”
Source: Oystercatchers
“Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times as you kiss His chest, "This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this is the heart of my soul;
nothing will ever separate me from His love.”
“Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.”
“Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy”
“Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance—your very identity—is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are”
Source: Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy
“Imagine life as ... black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect.”
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel
“Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.”
“Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.”
Source: Ratking
“Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.”
Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“Imagine living in a world where we judge each others intellect based on social statuses and class. Raw intelligence is not reserved for "upper classes" or those with a particular accent.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.”
“Imagine living with a scream inside you and that scream is yours. Now imagine no one hears it. That is what grief is.”
Source: The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
“Imagine living your life so indelibly that others remember your smile long after they’ve forgotten your name!”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.”
“Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?”
“Imagine lying about me just to make me look bad, while lying about yourself to appear better. That alone shows I must be a better and stronger person than you. I must be doing something right if you feel the need to distort the truth to tarnish my image or turn others against me. You lie about me so people will like you, instead of confronting your own failures, incompetence, bitterness, and weaknesses. Rather than working on becoming a better person, you try to pull me down with lies just to compete or be noticed. Deep down, you know that without those lies, you could never match my level. I am everything you fear and envy.”
“Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'”
“Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.”
“Imagine me
master of my own universe
I am everything I ever dreamed of”
Source: Imagine Me
“Imagine me on my knees in front of you – bowing before your feet – and I say - I beg you, break the cycle now.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.”
Source: Lolita
“Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.”
Source: Undercover
“Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.”
“Imagine my horror in knowing someone is waiting for me,
With my tears, brokenness and doctor-diagnosed PTSD.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!”
“Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.”
“Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.”
“Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”
“Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.”
“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...”
Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.”
Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?”
“Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.”
“Imagine others complexly.”
“Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.”
“Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky”
“IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread # PEACE .”
“Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.”
“Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!”
“Imagine people sitting around fire under a starry sky and wondering who we are and where we have come from. But instead we sit in drawing rooms and make statements: "I am so and so, my son is so and so, my god is so and so, my holy book is so and so." If you have already assumed an identity, how will you know who you really are?”
“Imagine Pepsi without Coke. Impossible, right?”
“Imagine Persephone for the first time in the absolute intoxication of dark, her senses stretching languid, the cave as moist as lover's breath. The feast, the chair, the plate, the fruit: red. Imagine a story whose moral is mute desire.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.”
Source: Rise and Shine: A Tool for the Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
“Imagine protecting your kids from a monster and then losing the right to watch them grow up.”
Source: To Save My Daughters
“Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting.”