I could have never imagined the terrible consequences.

I don't imagine the control of Mosul by Al Qaeda will serve anyone.

I thought that what I was saying was completely obvious.

Just when I thought there couldn't be a perfect gift, Gift Green came along.

Fertilizer and spraying were both more expensive than I thought.

Because I imagine the director Maz, I think your character would rob the bank with a bomb around him.

I don't envision any serious conflict beyond that.

I had thought that the fundamental issues in macroeconomics were settled in 1829.

I was its founding chairman, and I don t think anyone considers it a success.

I could picture doing that, and he and I would be natural allies, if I let it happen.

No country wants to put itself at the mercy of the likes of Eddie.

By the same token, I cannot think of a single economy whose long term growth prospects were damaged by excessive fiscal stinginess.

In fact, I cannot envision development strategy that is absent of or uninformed by the private sector.

And this is a pretty well educated audience, so I imagine you all know something about AIDS.

Stanley Fischer, whom I thought should have been picked in 2000 (he was Deputy Managing Director at the time).

But as I watch the mushrooms grow and digest my body, I imagine the Infinity Mushroom as a symbol of a new way of thinking about death and the relationship between my body and the environment.

A young woman at our democracy workshop told the assembled journalists and lecturers, We thought that Burma was a one off example.

I had imagined that I still knew the Saami language, but due to the broken contact with my Saami environment and culture, my language had not developed in a natural way. I realized that I stood on a level comparable with a seven year old's linguistic capabilities.

One might almost think that Saddam was still alive and in power, so his overthrow had to be prepared all over again.

But we could very soon end up not having enough of the fresh water that accounts for just 3 of all the water available on our planet.

And again, some of these may be far fetched, but I figured if there's anywhere to present far fetched ideas, it's here at TED, so thank you very much.

I responded, I thought the high oil and iron ore prices had made Brazil boom .Why hasn t Brazil spent more on its infrastructure?

In fact, I believe that China s future leaders, are more likely to come from China s burgeoning, but still limited, civil society than from the bureaucracy.

There must be an intrinsic correlation between the lack of developmental dynamism of most Middle Eastern societies and the fact that the region is so crisis prone.

I could even envisage a situation where, if recommendations were maintained, the United States could conceivably be inclined to drop the word non proliferation , as it originally proposed, at the end of the sentence.

This is why I believe that companies should find ways to give consumers more information about the carbon footprint of their products, and to promote more sustainable behavior among their customers.

This is Morina. This is a plant which I've always thought to be rather tedious named after Morin, who was an enterprising French gardener, who issued the first seed catalog in 1621.

When I think about the times I've been attacked or threatened or I've seen violence, I can't think of one instance when a gun would have improved the outcome.

I envisage a strategy whereby Australia, India, Japan, and the US state of Hawaii form a diamond to safeguard the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region to the western Pacific.

While preparing reports will be an important component of this mandate, I envision the mandate to be a humble change agent interlinking with a variety of concerned individuals and organizations as a proactive catalyst for change.

A similar decision today to meet with Assad would simply not be countenanced. One can only imagine the howls of derision that would be directed at President Barack Obama s administration were it to send an envoy to Damascus for such a meeting.

I would have imagined that, surely, that is the whole point that we have to dilute the status of the permanent five through the creation of new permanent seats in order to break the charmed circle and reach decisions acceptable to the broad majority of the general membership.

When I wrote about the end of history almost twenty years ago, one thing that I did not anticipate was the degree to which American behavior and misjudgments would make anti Americanism one of the chief fault lines of global politics.

Of course, I may be far too optimistic in thinking that the tragedy in the Gulf will spur a more sensible energy policy that attempts to moderate consumption rather than constantly seeking new ways to fuel it.

As for wages, even with one third of the US labor force changing jobs every year, sociological factors and human network ties appear to exercise an even stronger influence on the level and rate of change at the expense of balancing supply and demand than I would have expected.

I had thought that after so much exposure, thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God s forgiveness, and that a popular groundswell of revulsion, similar to the nineteenth century anti slavery movement, would emerge.

For some time I thought that the Twenty Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was probably the best way to ensure that political leaders do not overstay their welcome, and, just as importantly, wear out their effectiveness.

Can't imagine a newspaper like Al Ahram putting itself in such an embarrassing situation! I can't imagine a junior journalist, a hobby writer, or even a blogger to put himself in such position, a position that can be described in a best case scenario as a silly one. The Inevitable Mubarak Photoshopping Contest

During a recent trip to Brazil, my taxi driver complained about Sao Paulo s bumpy streets and highways. I responded, I thought the high oil and iron ore prices had made Brazil boom .Why hasn t Brazil spent more on its infrastructure?

Perhaps it is right that the use of religious symbols has become the subject of public debate, though I think that wearing headscarves and even veils is as much a part of individual freedom as is the wearing of Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses.

And if you're a rat and you go through a maze, and then you learn the maze, the next time you're in a maze, you have the same behavior, but all of a sudden, you're smarter because you say, oh, I recognize this maze, I know which way to go, I've been here before, I can envision the future. And that's what it's doing.