I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.
Go confidently. . . Live the life that you imagined.
I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.
. . . in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.
I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?
Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger. " A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!