quotes about Unattainable
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Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.
-- Alma Powell -
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
-- Bayard Taylor -
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
-- Betty Smith -
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
-- Cassius Jackson KeyserSource : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”
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I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.†(Sookie Stackhouse)
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
-- Dan DeaconSource : Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
-- Dorothea LangeSource : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
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There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
-- Elsa BarkerSource : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.183, Simon and Schuster
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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
-- Emile DurkheimSource : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
-- George Wald -
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.
-- Gilbert Highet -
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
-- Irving HoweSource : Irving Howe (1975). “The critical point, on literature and culture”
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Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets
-- J. R. D. Tata -
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
-- Jacob Bronowski -
...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.
-- Janette Rallison -
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I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin -
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
-- Joyce KilmerSource : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
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Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
-- Kara GoucherSource : FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Sep 05, 2013
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
-- Kara Lindsay -
Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
-- Lisa GenovaSource : Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
-- Lorde -
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Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning
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I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
-- Martha WainwrightSource : "Formerly Known as What's-His-Name's Sister" by Daphne Merkin, www.elle.com. April 20, 2011.
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Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.
-- Michael Shermer -
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
-- Robert Ardrey -
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Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
-- Russell L. Ackoff -
It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere…
-- Samantha Barks -
I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.
-- Stephanie Klein -
but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.
-- Susane Colasanti -
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In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.
-- Wilfred ThesigerSource : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.38, Penguin
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Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
-- William Lane Craig -
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
-- William Osler -
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.
-- Ken Goldberg -
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You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
-- Adamo Macri