“Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.” IfsThinkingWayTryingWellsPersonsLife IsImagineSincereCompassionateSincerelyLife Is LikeSatirical Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.” IfsGivingLooksMeanLife IsTermImagineShareUnderstoodBillsRewardsReactionsGet BackFulfillingPhenomenalSpadesCourtney Author:Bill Courtney
“So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.” Life IsFearLaughingImagineNormalLaughterCivilizedBulls Author:James Clavell
“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” IfsThinkingLifeInspirationalTryingMindHas BeensI CanLife IsInspiringImagineInspirational LifeFailureForgivingAfrican AmericanImagine ThatCould Have BeenFear Of FailureOvercoming FailureAfrican American WomenFailure In LifeFailure InspirationalFear Of SuccessAfrican American LoveBlack Women InspirationalAfrican American Inspirational Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.” Life IsChanceStepsImagineWindArgumentStructureComplexesCome UpAriseDiscussionManifestationImagine ThatImprobableLikelihoodBiologistBoeingAssemblingSingle StepWind BlowingJunkyard Author:John Maynard Smith
“If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.” IfsFirstsMeanStatesLife IsWinningLeftNumbersImagineNewsBlueInternalsEnginesDepressingMadmenCombustionLefties Author:Brock Yates
“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.” PeopleIfsWayTryingHumansHas BeensStillsDifferentShowsSchoolRememberMovingLife IsUsedHouseNaturalHuman BeingsPartyRolesImagineMovementIdentityReturnFitCapableAssumingUsed To BeThemeStayingVariationPersonaMimicking Book:Falling Through Space Source: Falling Through Space
“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.” LifeDoeRealDreamSeemsLife IsBeliefImagineEvidenceWakingImagine ThatUnrealWaking Life Author:Wei Wu Wei
“God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.” DoeMomentsHumorLife IsReligiousJusticeSinImagineSalvationCommittedThis LifeSinnerImagine ThatAbiding Author:Martin Luther
“I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.” ThinkingWayCountryLife IsCommunityAbilityImagineHolesClimbsBetter LifeBetter Ways Author:Deval Patrick
“You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.” KnowsTryingBookFormLife IsImagineDesignReaderRewardsStorytellingPointless Author:John Updike
“Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.” WayLife IsLaughingImagineCrySurpriseMake You Laugh Author:Niki de Saint Phalle