“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.” HumansGovernmentGivenDifficultSupportPiecesImagineParticularDignityBillsHuman LifeMinistersBrownPrimeLegislationPrime MinisterSanctity Author:Keith O'Brien
“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.” HeartMayGivenCompassionImagineMy HeartDifficultyAskingAppropriate Author:Jack Kornfield
“The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.” PersonsSoulHelpingDesireUniverseEvilGivenCausesImagineLimitsAimPropertyErrorsIgnorantInsufficient Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.” IfsDifferentWould BeFormLanguageGivenImagineConceptsSeriesNotionPatternsAnalysisDependentCategoriesImagine ThatLackingExpressiveConfiguration Author:Edward Sapir
“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know” KnowsGivenCitiesImaginePlansProgramWhy NotSovietRepresentativesRocketsDisneylandPadsLaunching Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.” WorldWritingI CanBookStoriesJobsGivenInterestingImagineSatisfactionAwfulComicFascinatingComic Book Author:Dennis O'Neil
“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.” PassionLiteratureGivenFictionStudyImagineStudentsExtraordinaryImagine ThatEnglish LiteratureLove Passion Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.” FirstsReasonGivenImagineProduceRemainsAdmirationImagine ThatNovelty Book:The Rambler Source: The Rambler
“We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.” FightingGivenImagineTerribleResponseSpeciesBlowFlightSeptemberAdaptive Author:Yochai Benkler
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.” WritingWarEndsMotherCoursesGivenClassImagineMonthsBirthSkillsPreparedComplexesNotionNineAbsurdAcquireCompositionNaiveNine Months Author:Mary Blakely
“Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.” IfsBelieveHas BeensBeliefGivenImagineBelieve In GodImagine That Author:Daniel Dennett
“When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.” IfsEyeLyingGivenGrowsWaitingChanceRichImagineSurfaceSeedsSoilNurtureGardenerFertileSowingGiven A ChanceSowing SeedsFertile Soil Author:Steve Goodier