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“When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.”

Sex Imagine Design Program Hot Users Imagine That Digging Tangled Fingertips Interfaces

Author:Randall Munroe

“If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.”

People Ifs World Persons Art Use Reality Running Artist Love Is Alive Imagine Creating Survival Running Away Imagine That Another World

Author:Robin Gibb

“Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.”

Music Practice Imagine Music Is Singing Celebration Imagine That

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.”

Way Life Done Clear Imagine Best Way Imagine That Things Done

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.”

“I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.”

Thinking Inspirational Feels Funny Actors Imagine Becoming Lucky Comfortable Profession Imagine That Sailing Insecure Kidding Yourself

Author:Hugh Dancy

“The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.”

Mind War Lasts Next Lines Cases Imagine Military Scales Factors Aviation Imagine That Aircraft Large Scale Air Power Airpower

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.”

Community Accepting Imagine Written Majority Peaceful Occasions Distinction Imagine That Patriot Proven Propositions Civics Parameters Wholeheartedly Pluralism Muslim Community Civic Minded

Author:Robert Spencer

“Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.”

Persons Play Order Perfect Imagine Beats Tennis Imagine That Almost Perfect

Author:Venus Williams

“He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.”

Knows Can Do Greater Imagine Fruit Imagine That Inherent Worthless Grapes Strawberries More Knowledge

Author:Paracelsus

“It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

Ifs Book Self Dies Easy Imagine Week Dying Disease Arguing Why Not Annoying Imagine That Terminal Terminal Disease

Author:Anne Enright

“You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.”

Knows Men Want Doe Imagine Hero Fellows Silly Vain Imagine That Silly Things

Book:Jean Christophe

Source: Jean Christophe

“For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.”

Important Seems Government Might Political Imagine Dangerous Citizens Office Projects Neighbor Fancy Sensible Imagine That Trustworthy Unjustified Entrusting

Author:Donald J. Boudreaux

“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.”

May Seems Imagine Impossible Essence Climate Imagine That

Book:Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

Source: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

“If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.”

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.”

Hard Lasts Deals Accepting Imagine Movement Thirds Eternity Finals Scales Addresses Imagine That Minors Bathroom Particles Thumbs Crossings Gettysburg Sonatas Gettysburg Address Mildew

Author:Jeremy Denk

“It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.”

Mean Use Problem Reality Language Imagine Communication Illusion Reflection Imagine That Use Of Language

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

Life Imagination Imagine Imagine That Living Things Hmm

Author:e. e. cummings

“A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.”

Ifs Men Doe Ideas Form Clear Imagine Curiosity Persistence Midst Imagine That Vague Outlines Looming

Book:Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.”

Thinking Humans Faces Memories My Own Perfect Numbers Millions Imagine Computer My Friends Let Me Phones Stores Aliens Imagine That Recalls Accuracy Phone Numbers

Author:Alan Cooper

“It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.”

Knows Doe Suffering Imagine Unique Imagine That Comforting

Author:Chris Ware

“Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.”

Able Imagine Conditions Complexes Controlled Imagine That

Author:Ulrich Beck

“It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.”

Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide

“Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views”

Christian Views Imagine Wall Saved Imagine That Zion

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.”

Ifs Believe Choices Hell Imagine Right Now Paradise Imagine That Somewhere Else

Book:Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

“I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my manager Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did? He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Can you imagine that! Guess Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot.”

Ifs Knows Said Different Forget Imagine Mines Shots Red Letters Managers Never Forget Imagine That Uniforms September Threatening Fbi Yogi

Author:Phil Rizzuto

“The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.”

Wisdom Spiritual Grace Imagine Trouble Tricks Gods Will Spiritual Life Imagine That Shortcuts Gimmicks

Author:Thomas Merton

“I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are”

Imagine Brother Originals Unity Notion Dear Supposed To Be Imagine That Monk Dear Brother

Author:Thomas Merton

“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”

Want Looks Light Film Rooms Behinds Taken Imagine Doors Effects Objects Changed Ordinary Sitting Atmosphere Instant Imagine That Corpses Altered

Author:Carl Theodor Dreyer

“The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.”

Humans Doe Reason Perfect Imagine Human Nature Danger Species Atheist Believer Limitation Imagine That Guise Human Species Science Religion

Author:Chris Hedges

“"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.”

Giving Mean Made War States Political Peace Ability Study Meditation Imagine Plans Military Ought Doctors Planning Breathing Leisure Imagine That Hobbes Great Political

Author:Edmund Burke

“If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.”

Ifs Asks Imagine Let Me Imagine That Harvard

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.”

Men Faces Imagine Serious Projects Weakness Men And Women Reasonable Imagine That Reasonable Man

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!”

People Way Country Used Dies Imagine Imagine That Volunteer Foreign Countries

Author:Michael Badnarik

“I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.”

Fiction Imagine Terrible Variety Imagine That Convenient Inner Life Strangeness

Book:The Sorrows of an American: A Novel

Source: The Sorrows of an American: A Novel

“All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.”

“I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.”

Firsts Book Form Imagine Abandoned Imagine That Verses Free Verse

Author:Howard Nemerov

“Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.”

Might Imagine Debate Tone Imagine That

Author:Jack Layton

“Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.”

Ifs Men Firsts Looks Self Reason Would Be Action Purpose Interest Results Imagine Theory Please Logical Sentiments Imagine That Self Interest

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.”

Ideas Feelings Reality Desire Wish Consciousness Imagine Assuming Crowds Fulfillment Assumption Possessed Imagine That Fulfilled Sensory Vividness

Book:The Power of Awareness

Source: The Power of Awareness

“The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.”

War Suffering Decision Cases Imagine Example British Dues Factors Imagine That Suspicion Innate Splendid Cabinets Villainy Coventry

Author:Martin Caidin

“Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.”

Needs Sometimes Political Imagine Revolution Shapes Revolutionary Imagine That Rebellious

Author:George Orwell

“I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.”

Source: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

“Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."”

Children Play Wanted Three Names Education Imagine Husband Married Our Children Mathematics Your Children Each Day Imagine That Uncles Cousin Aunt Aunts And Uncles Great Aunt

Author:Brian X. Foley

“The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.”

People Needs Easy Difficult Imagine Expression Organization Intention Imagine That Difficult Things

Author:Neil Jordan

“It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.”

People Hard Would Be Imagine Information Soldier Helpful Imagine That Cia

Author:Chris Shays

“I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.”

Ifs Imagine Strive Hopeful Imagine That Without Hope

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.”

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”

Ifs Want Imagine Moon Lovely Imagine That

Author:Giles Andreae

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