#imagined

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#i #imagined #life #long #work

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. ↗

— Mark Poster

#attention #dangerous #deflect #effective #enemy

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#anticipations #cannot #day #day to day #each

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. ↗

— Henry Knox

#correspondent #force #government #imagined #laws

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#always #i #imagined #kind #library

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#anything #beautiful #brings #far #had

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#character #extraordinary #feel #genius #hand