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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Imagine Easier Memoir Novelists Imaginary Imagine That Imaginary Life

Author:Mark Leyner

“It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.”

Difficult Imagine Planets Evolution Aliens

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“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.”

Humans Government Given Difficult Support Pieces Imagine Particular Dignity Bills Human Life Ministers Brown Prime Legislation Prime Minister Sanctity

Author:Keith O'Brien

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”

Writing Enjoy Difficult Imagine Fingers Enjoyed Toes Fingers And Toes

Book:Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.”

States Nations Difficult Imagine Bread Vegetables

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.”

Thinking Mind Humans Ends Religion Difficult Imagine Divine Color Army Reasoning Human Intelligence Sergeants

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?”

People Wells Difficult Interesting Imagine Painting Contrary Imagine That Comrade

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.”

Ifs Whole Difficult Class Imagine Possibility Moved Newton Bradman

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.”

Kind Real Reading Difficult Interest Attention Imagine Reader Fit Be Good All Kinds Engaged Being Real Imaginary Difficult Things

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.”

People Writing Art Seems Difficult Imagine Illusion Tools Imagine That

Book:On becoming a writer

Source: On becoming a writer

“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.”

“I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.”

People Thinking Way Writing Trying Littles I Can Hands Jobs Difficult Imagine Tough Let Me Bases Series Scripts Smarter

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.”

Ifs Knows Looks Individual Difficult Imagine Identity Absolutes Individuality Imagine That Personal Identity

Author:John Banville

“It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.”

Mother Father Strong Difficult Imagine Baby Partners Imagine That Unbearable Life Partner

Author:Michael Haneke

“It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.”

Men Kind Self Difficult Rights Imagine Self Improvement Men And Women Improvement Likes Breasts Dedication Partnership Womens Rights Misogyny Surgery

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.”

People Ifs Believe Long Speak Language I Believe Difficult Party Imagine Willing Communication Fine Communicate Hearing Doomed Deaf Deafness No Communication

Author:Marlee Matlin

“Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think anybody here could imagine actually knowing Cindy Campbell from 'Scary Movies.' So, in a way, your job is so much easier when you're playing a person that you really understand and that seems very relatable. I think I was coming to a place in my career where I was like, "I'd like to do something a little more rewarding."”

Thinking Knows Way Littles Persons Character Seems Jobs Difficult Careers Knowing Imagine Easier Scary Relatable Cindy

Author:Anna Faris

“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”

Persons Real Home Jobs Difficult Liberty Imagine Paper Losing Hungry Bread Oppression Enjoyed Exploitation Unemployment Unemployed True Freedom Personal Liberty Living In Fear

Author:Joseph Stalin

“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”

Knows Ends Dream Desire Difficult Imagine Childhood Comfortable Eternal Disappear Life And Death Yearning Adolescence

Author:Hugh Hefner

“It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Years Hard Difficult Space Practice Imagine Training Astronaut Space Shuttle Physical Training

Author:Sally Ride

“Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.”

People Film Difficult Imagine

Author:Sydney Pollack

“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.”

I Can Might Social Difficult Struggle Imagine Easier Prejudice Add Lists Autism Stressful

Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.”

Persons Difficult Liberty Imagine Hungry Employment Enjoyed Unemployed Personal Liberty

Author:J. Stalin

“There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.”

Thinking World Needs Country Use Jobs Difficult Term Imagine Taxes Tools Agree Trade Wide Cards Around The World Proven Variation Caps Best Job Sweden Co2 Tax System

Author:Al Gore

“Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.”

Men States Felt Difficult Imagine Horror Understood Negative Hunger Satisfied Starvation

Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth

“Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.”

Problem Difficult Imagine Understood Imagine That Difficult Problems

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.”

Ifs Knows Giving Hard Happens Today Difficult Differences Imagine Figures Giving Up Benefits Shoes Saving Buying Fund Pairs Retirement Imagine That Bicycle Pair Of Shoes

Author:Dan Ariely

“When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.”

Stills Dream Difficult Answers Imagine

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.”

Men States Would Be Difficult Imagine Century Honor Fit Safety Filled Guides Opening Presidential Chairs Executives Incapable Stormy

Book:The Naval War of 1812, Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

Source: The Naval War of 1812, Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

“I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.”

Ifs Moving Law Difficult Break Imagine Taxes Consequence Advantage Letters Caught Honestly California Strongest One Time Entitled Severe Somewhere Else Perpetrators Tax Breaks

Author:Michael Franzese

“It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.”

Book Whole Seems Difficult Imagine Scene Documents

Author:Mary J. Miller

“Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.”

Humans Said Important Matter Difficult Imagine Tasks Interpretation Being Human Sisyphus

Author:George Pattison

“It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.”

Years Has Beens Difficult Imagine Imagine That Dictatorship

Author:Bassem Youssef

“Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.”

Able Difficult Pieces Imagine Fields Computer Fighter Isis Commanders

Author:Dina Temple-Raston