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“Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.”

“When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.”

Ifs Knows Kind Imagine Scene Music Is Come Up Orchestration

Author:Patty Duke

“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.”

Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

“I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.”

“Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.”

Ifs Needs Heart Persons Kids Funny Spiritual Hours Levels Five Imagine Six Clock Sense Of Humor Noon Kid At Heart

Author:Nick Cannon

“In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'”

Ifs Men Said Fighting Three Issues Imagine Fit Size Storm Closets Jeans Castles Tombs Basements X Men Juggernaut Kryptonite

Author:Seanbaby

“Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.”

Ifs Want Enjoy Opinion Imagine Player Becoming Musician Capable Harder Hardest Weekend Hardest Thing Just Do It Composing

Author:John Powell

“The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.”

Ifs I Can Jobs Actors Interesting Imagine Everyday If I Could

Author:Jason Bateman

“I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.”

People Ifs Knows Goal Imagine Buying Manipulative Devious Buying Things

Author:Russell Brand

“Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.”

Ifs Imagine Understood

Author:Jim Palmer

“I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.”

Ifs Thinking Made School Hate Bits Imagine Football Financial Math Stuck Finance Made It Imagine That Love Hate Playing Football Love Hate Relationship Love And Hate Relationship

Author:Matteo Manassero

“If Arnold is elected, you know who I'd feel sorry for? The people on death row. Imagine, you're about to be executed, the governor calls, you think it's your reprieve, and you hear 'Hasta la vista, baby.'”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Imagine Baby Sorry Governors Vistas Death Row Reprieve

Author:Jay Leno

“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.”

Ifs Important Shows Hands Imagine Periods Photography Photographer Accepted Destroyed Imagine That

Author:Josef Koudelka

“If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.”

Ifs World Want Trying Looks Moments Bigs Ability Powerful Imagine Ordinary Core Leap Making Changes I Want A Woman

Author:Liya Kebede

“Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.”

Ifs Humans I Can Human Beings Sin Love Is Alive Imagine Return Blessing Proof Imagine That

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.”

People Ifs World Should Seems Order Imagine Honest Prove Degrees Absolutes Accomplishment Reserves Deference

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”

Ifs Years Long Wanted Beautiful Mother Imagine Honest Strange Hundred Grateful Phones Forty Working It Phone Calls Wooing

Book:Braided Lives: A Novel

Source: Braided Lives: A Novel

“You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.”

People Ifs Want Writing Persons Character Happens Imagine Skins Imagine That Good Character

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.”

Ifs Ideas Our Lives Imagine Hair Please Difficulty Imagine That Avoiding Desperation

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Real Desire Water Wonder Imagine Crime Driving Commit Experts Strongest Appetite Thirst Sexual Desire

Author:Dervla Murphy

“If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.”

Ifs I Can Able Rights Imagine Birth Protect Preserves Privacy Birth Control

Author:Faye Wattleton

“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”

People Ifs Self States Opportunity Sides Moral Imagine Conditions Down And Sensitive Pregnancy Spheres Twilight Imagine That Pregnant Strain Melting Exalted Pregnant Women

Book:Misconceptions

Source: Misconceptions

“I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.”

People Ifs I Can Speak Imagine Doors Listening Gossip Tiresome

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.”

Ifs Would Be Imagine Holy Holy Life

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“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.”

Ifs Years Home Might Earth Imagine Mere Climate Change Treated Aliens Barbarians Descendants

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”

Ifs I Can Universe Imagine Empty Bigger Stranger Bladder

Book:Old Man's War Boxed Set I

Source: Old Man's War Boxed Set I

“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.”

Ifs World Way Want Use Light Hope Imagination Vision Focus Imagine Future Anxiety Shining Thrive Brighter

Author:Ian Lawton

“Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.”

Ifs Giving Should Ends Artist Attention Imagine Honor Hey Museums Mary Masterpiece Offended Resent Hey You

Book:Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

Source: Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

“Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.”

Ifs Knows World Would Be Imagine Judging And Love Forgiving Selfish Heal Truthful Being Truthful Being Selfish Love And Forgiveness Heal The World

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.”

Ifs Needs Made Sometimes Matter Able Film Next Loses Audience Too Much Imagine Subjects Type Members Direct Genre Sensitive Imagine That Subject Matter

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”

Ifs Way Writing Made Shows Jobs Mistake Break Imagine Advice Stupid Lucky Helpful Do The Best Unreliable Day Jobs Really Stupid Lucky Breaks Stupid Mistake

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.”

Ifs Needs Mind Persons Clear Meditation Imagine Limits Anxiety Benefits Stress Crisis Calm Reaching Coping Reduction Stress And Anxiety Clear Minds Stress Reduction

Author:Deepak Chopra

“We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.”

People Ifs Years Doe Shows Four Imagine Air Tvs Four Years Tv Shows

Author:Matt Groening

“The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.”

Source: Moon Over Soho

“The subconscious ... reacts very quickly to strong emotions or feelings. Whatever it is you vividly imagine, the subconscious thinks is actually happening. The subconscious, if instructed properly, is like a faithful, obedient servant who fulfills your every wish.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Strong Wish Emotion Imagine Happenings Faithful Servant Subconscious Obedient Strong Emotions

Author:John Harricharan

“It's funny to think of Dave Chappelle's show and how popular it was and he was before YouTube. I would imagine 'Chappelle's Show' would be even more giant if there was a chance to put his stuff online and pass it around.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Would Be Stuff Chance Imagine Giants Online Youtube Dave

Author:Paul Scheer

“You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.”

Ifs Kids Names Pieces Imagine Kissing Ugly Endless Loser Ham Warts

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!”

Ifs Should Would Be Sex Race Imagine Coming Out Unconsciousness

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.”

Ifs Men Home Might Jobs Moving Asks Names Imagine Baby Raises Quitting

Author:Gabrielle Burton

“If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.”

Ifs Imagine Streets Media Baby Crosses Machines Shining Approval Beam Haircuts

Author:Ali MacGraw

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Individual Imagine Expectations Weight Gender Recognizing

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.”

Ifs Politics Imagine Idiot Repeats Imagine That Alas Congressman

Author:Mark Twain

“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

“One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'”

Ifs Knows Looks Done Used Sides Imagine One Thing Mom Tomorrow My Mom Bad Day Having A Bad Day

Author:Tyra Banks

“It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.”

People Ifs Imagine Talent Ready Capable Drawing Imagine That Funny Things

Author:Nancy Mitford

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Imagine Week Months Waste Peaceful Distress

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.”

People Ifs Writing I Can Enough Would Be Song Break Imagine Mass Asking Sells Foolish Insulting

Author:Jack White

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