#imagined

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#humbled #i #imagined #jail #me

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#doubled #i #imagined #ways

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#absolutely #behind #certainty #had #i

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#grinder #i #imagined #like #meat

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#because #danger #imagined #maintained #necessary

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#black #called #christian #claim #dear

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideas #imagined #own #part #real