Imminence Quotes

This uranium issue is not just about 16 words in a speech. It is about whether administration officials made a conscious and very troubling decision to create a false impression about the gravity and imminence of the threat that Iraq posed to America. - Carl Levin

The decision on the imminence of this threat was not determined by the city of Newton. It was determined by the FBI. - Jeremy Solomon

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, I and my Father are One. - James Allen

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act. - Ambrose Bierce

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well? - William James

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. - Susan Sontag