Quotes About Imaginary

Fiction comprises stories about things that never happened to people who didn't exist.

The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.

Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you leave. Out here.

Pétri de vanité il avait encore plus de cette espèce d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de supériorité, peut-être imaginaire. Tiré d'une lettre particulière

Hardworking people are always cheerful, for they have no time to manufacture imaginary troubles, which are always worse than real ones.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

Though the Ista they thought they loved, she supposed, was an imaginary one, a woman who existed only in their own minds, part icon, part habit. The reflection did not depress her unduly, now that she knew someone who loved the Ista who was real. She fell asleep thinking of him.

The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present—they are real." His voice fell, as he spoke, so that by the end he was almost whispering.

There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

How many hours of human labor will be devoured today, by an imaginary God?

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

There ain't no such animal.

Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength

It turned out Juicy's place took the prize: a mansion in Westchester County. He'd once muttered "north of Harlem"—probably trying to maintain his street cred. Which was imaginary. He lived in a ten-bedroom house in Rye.

AGNUS CASTUS  (AGNUS CASTUS)   n.s.[Lat.]The name of the tree commonly called the Chaste Tree, from an imaginary virtue of preserving chastity. Of laurel some, of woodbine many more,And wreathes of agnus castus others bore.Dryden.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.