Imitate Quotes

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.