quotes about Unthinkable
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
-- Arundhati Roy -
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
-- Barry Pepper -
My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
-- Carre Otis -
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
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But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
-- Ernest Lehman -
We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.
-- Ferran Adria -
That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.
-- Frances Hardinge -
It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.
-- Frank Knox -
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Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
-- Frans de WaalSource : "Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'". phys.org. February 20, 2012.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
-- Gary AckermanSource : "House Hunting in the West Bank" by Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org. June 4, 2009.
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
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For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
-- Murray BookchinSource : "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, p. 107, 2005.
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A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
-- Nick Johnson -
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.
-- Paul KeatingSource : "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' Writer Among Top Irish-Australians". www.irishtimes.com. August 19, 2009.
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Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
-- Robert SilverbergSource : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
-- Wolfgang SmithSource : Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.18, TAN Books
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
-- Olen SteinhauerSource : Olen Steinhauer (2010). “The Nearest Exit”, p.237, Macmillan
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Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
-- Karl KautskySource : John Hans Kautsky, Karl Kautsky (1924). “Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy”, p.217, Transaction Publishers