“If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that light moment as some imagine: it is no easy matter. But to die well is a matter of every day. Let us daily do some good that may help us at the time of our death. Every day by repentance pull out the sting of some sin,that so when death comes, we may have nothing to do but to die. To die well is the action of the whole life.” IfsWellsMayEndsMatterWholeMomentsHelpingLightActionJoyDesireDiesEasySinImagineComfortComfortableFoundationLaysWhole LifeRepentance Author:Richard Sibbes
“I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!” IfsWantPoorImaginePrayingAngelFriars Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'” IfsKnowsDreamImagineKingsLuther Author:Benjamin Zander
“If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"” IfsHardDoneGuyImaginePoliticianDeserveTreatsRidiculous Author:Hooman Majd
“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.” IfsMovingLawDifficultBreakImagineTaxesConsequenceAdvantageLettersCaughtHonestlyCaliforniaStrongestOne TimeEntitledSevereSomewhere ElsePerpetratorsTax Breaks Author:Michael Franzese
“There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.” IfsWayMayCharacterFactsStoriesGivenDecisionSituationStudyOur LivesImagineCrazyBraveEthical Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I think there's no question that historians create; they would tell you that, I think. If I'm trying to imagine an imperial Roman position, it's much easier to imagine the poor schlub who's not even sure why he's doing what he's doing than it is to imagine Caesar. At least for me. And I'm intrigued, too, by the position of the poor schlub who *still* finds himself supporting the imperial project.” IfsThinkingTryingStillsPoorImaginePositionEasierProjectsHistorianIntrigued Author:Jim Shepard
“I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingSocialStuffImagineSticksPhonesMeaningfulBunchCellsPlatformsCell Phone Author:Biz Stone
“I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.” PeopleIfsImagineAngryNosesUpsetClown Author:Bernie Glassman
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room” IfsMenWayWantShouldI CanMomentsYoungCertainRoomsWonderNovelImagineLimitsShadowGainsLonelyUnionsWorkersYoung ManRevelationsHotelRopeAppearingFlatteringAlleysHotel RoomsImmediacyLonely Women Author:James Vance
“I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.” IfsWritingI CanImagineDiseaseDiedLoved OnesInsensitive Author:Joel Stein
“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.” IfsFeelsHumanityReadingKindnessImagineExampleMessagesGood ThingsStrangerGenerosityReach OutTenderness Author:Sophie Blackall
“Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!” IfsI CanSchoolDealsClassGrowing UpTeacherGrowingImagineHigh SchoolAnnoyingFourteenAnnoying Things Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.” IfsThinkingChildrenLongAblePainJobsFeltParentImagineEvidenceDoctorsPoliceIllOfficersEngagementNurseTherapistsPolice OfficerBurn OutEmpathetic Author:Paul Bloom
“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.” IfsKnowsYearsArtPlaySchoolGrowing UpGrowingImagineMomMetsTenHigh SchoolMy FriendsMy MomEightQuittingPianoGentlemanClassical MusicViolinSubmergedUncool Author:Sean Mackin
“I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.” IfsWould BeImagineSkisSkiing Author:Douglas Booth
“And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.” IfsChildrenTwoPerfectImagineBrotherRaisesRaisedGrandmotherHallsImagine ThatStrictEleanorTwo BrothersPerfect Child Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.” IfsYearsAsksStudyImagineEightPreparationPriests Author:Pope Francis
“Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.” IfsWantWritingTryingLosesVisionImagineFieldsOffersCapableWeightPermanentChocolateArticlesBowlsImmoralCookiesAttemptingRejectingLose WeightYour Favorite Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.” IfsWayEnoughWould BeImaginePossibilityParticularSeriousReaderDetailsDiscussionAbstractSuspectsExplorationWorthwhileVividExaminationPresentationAnatomy Author:Philip Kitcher
“I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanMightWould BeKidsGrowing UpGrowingImagineGayBe YouImagine ThatKids Growing Up Author:Rib Hillis
“There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsPersonsDreamWould BeGuyImagineStreetsMovementKingsOfficeDecidedVoteElectionOrganizeGod KnowsGood Guy Author:Joan Baez
“Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.” IfsPersonsPlayUseEyeJobsFunImaginationHalfImagineDirectorsDressesExcitedMarie Author:Zoe Kazan
“A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.” PeopleIfsPlaySchoolSongThreeHeavenAbilityPracticeImagineStyleGuitarFocusedSoloChordsRamonesStairwaysGuitar SolosStairway To Heaven Author:Kevin Shields
“Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.” IfsWayWritingKindMadeUnderstandingDifferencesTakenImagineMade ItOne WayCompareEncountersSuggestingHelenInterrogationRoad Not Taken Author:Laura Mullen
“I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImagineProgressCriticismKneesBeesInvincibleWork In ProgressTrying Our Best Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingIdeasSelfGuySongBitsImagineHearingObsessedEmbarrassedThis GuyPersonaWriting SongsSelf Obsessed Author:Max Tundra
“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.” IfsWayEnoughSpeakClearImagineMythEnormousSymbolsColourInterpretationRainbowFolklore Author:Diana Wynne Jones
“It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.” IfsYearsEndsBodyRunningKidsQualityImagineHigherSurpriseBeachFloridaQuality Of LifeSurprise Me Author:Juan Enriquez
“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.” IfsWayFeelsTryingHeartSaidDoneFeelingsStrongChanceAnswersEmotionSituationImagineArmsEasierHealthyDeterminationAngerManagementAngryManageWorking ItAllowingRealisticTransformingAnger ManagementCoherenceHead And HeartStrong ArmsEasier Said Than Done Author:Doc Childre
“If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.” IfsLooksImagineBossJailNaughtyForks Author:Ricky Gervais
“Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.” IfsWorldLoveLittlesPersonsHappinessYoungMusicFamilyImagineHelping OthersVolunteerHarmoniousSingle PersonVolunteerismYoung And Old Author:Quincy Jones
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsChildrenArtRealUseCareArtistImagineSmartResourcesTradeConstantFeel GoodExpensiveExcessFeel BetterPercentages Author:Lawrence Weiner
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.” IfsBoysImagineTroubleCrimeBrotherStoresRanMy BrotherTerritoryChicagoGangsters Author:Quincy Jones
“If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.” IfsYearsImagineFitSucceedArgument Author:Cass Sunstein
“If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.” IfsHumansHardRealityAblePerfectImagineVirtual RealitySimulate Author:Palmer Luckey
“Imagine a German as president of the European Commission. If he or she goes to some particular country and says do this or that, it won't be very well received. The president quickly ends up being the evil German. But if the president is elected by and controlled by 700 representatives from all EU countries, that legitimizes him or her in a very different way.” IfsWayWellsDifferentEndsCountryEvilPresidentImagineParticularDifferent WaysControlledRepresentatives Author:Martin Schulz
“I think it took us all by surprise. I mean, I knew that people in New Zealand would like [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but no one really anticipated how much they would embrace it as it is. And it's playing widely in Australia now; they're running it as well. It's going to be interesting to see how it does it in the States, but I think if Sundance was any indication, I imagine it could do well.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsMeanDoeStatesRunningInterestingImagineEmbraceSurpriseAustraliaHuntsIndicationNew ZealandSundance Author:Sam Neill
“The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious?” PeopleIfsWorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyImagineDangerMajorityIsraelIranSyriaTrue Democracy Author:Andre Vltchek
“Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.” IfsPlayImagineManualsSingle Word Author:Ryan Montgomery
“Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingPlayShowsFormCertainAttentionTeachImagineTeachingStyleListeningComplexesIncrediblesRapMelodySyllablesMiranda Author:Ryan Montgomery
“I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.” IfsI CanTwoPlayWould BeHurtCuttingImagineFootballDaughterMy FriendsDoctorsLegsBeachKneesMy DaughterGymRetiredBecause I CanChelsea Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!” IfsStatesWholeTurnsProcessImaginePlanetsTvsHigherNewsDimensionsHeavenlyAscensionTurned OffNews Channels Author:DJ QBert
“I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences.” IfsWantTryingI CanAsksDifferencesImaginePlanetsScared Author:Damian Kulash
“You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.” IfsWritingUseLanguagePiecesImagineTablesCleanVery GoodGood FriendDressed UpPajamasVery Good Friends Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenImportantCountryCultureUnderstandingForgetBehindsImagineReadyEuropeSensibilityEducatorWhat's ImportantMillennium Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.” PeopleIfsLittlesStillsUseImagineTasteProgramEducationalOilFatsExtrasVirginsTextureOlivesOvensOlive OilAvocadosEducational Programs Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.” IfsWholeEarthImaginePlanetsMaskRestrictionPlanet EarthFilters Author:Gretchen Bleiler
“Imagine if the mistakes we made actually helped us to just become better versions of ourselves. I believe this is what life is about, and when we look at it this way, then there is nothing to be afraid of!” IfsWayBelieveLooksMadeLife IsI BelieveMistakeImagineVersions Author:Gretchen Bleiler