Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. .
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
Let us be reckless in our capture of the imagination. For when we do, our dreams become the foundation upon which our reality is built.
I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.
I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.
I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine.
...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.
Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone. "You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.
I decide to release myself the only way I can imagine: I pee my pants.
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!
Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
