“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.” WellsChildrenPersonsStillsDoneSportsSawsImagineNewsIsolatedImagine ThatJakarta Author:Andrea Hirata
“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
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.” WorldHumansHelpingFeelingsPoetryLanguageLinesSituationImaginePerspectiveHonorNewsToolsDirectMetaphorDetailsMeaningfulGenuinePoetry IsImageryHeadlines Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.” PeopleIfsHappensImagineWorstHonestyPolicyEasierAnxietyNewsDisappointmentHonestlyMoodHandleUncertaintyAnxiousGood NewsVacuums Author:Judith M Bardwick
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."” IfsStatesHappensAbleUnitedUnited StatesImagineNewsFolksReportsCensorshipDictatorDocumentariesIntimidatingImposingSatirical Author:Barack Obama
“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
“It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.” HardGuyChoicesPartyLeaderClearImagineFiguresRepublicanNewsWingsEstablishmentRepublican PartyChairmanRight WingStarks Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.” IfsWorldEnoughWould BeMovingImaginePolicyTrumpNewsElectionInternationalFoolishIslamicImagine ThatPledgeBad NewsJerusalemProvocationEmbassy Author:Richard A. Falk
“I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!” WantLoveLifeHeartLongSaidMomentsRoomsImagineWonderfulBrokenFineTerribleRight NowNewsBlindFilledOptimisticLong LifeGus Author:John Green
“I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.” PeopleWayRealitySchoolFacesLife IsParentVoiceImagineFlowerNewsEmptyLocalsAnalysisGloriousSteadyStillnessResurrectionShockedStoicismPlaygroundsDisconnectedCorridorsAnnouncementsClassmatesLocal News Author:Joe Dunthorne
“I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.” PeopleKnowsMayLongTwoTogetherImagineBrotherNewsCongratulationsLife Together Author:Cassandra Clare