Quotes about Unthinkable

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. Votes: 6

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Votes: 6

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Votes: 6

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Votes: 6

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. Votes: 6

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. Votes: 6

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable. Votes: 6

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. Votes: 4

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. Votes: 4

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened Votes: 4

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. Votes: 4

It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Votes: 4

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. Votes: 4

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Votes: 4

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. Votes: 4

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. Votes: 4

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. Votes: 4

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. Votes: 4

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Votes: 4

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. Votes: 4

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss. Votes: 4

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. Votes: 4

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow. Votes: 4

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. Votes: 4

This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now? Votes: 3

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. Votes: 3

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by. Votes: 3

I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon. Votes: 3

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. Votes: 2

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane. Votes: 2

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. Votes: 2

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. Votes: 2

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Votes: 2

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. Votes: 2

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. Votes: 2

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.' Votes: 2

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression. Votes: 2

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation. Votes: 2

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. Votes: 2

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place. Votes: 2

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable. Votes: 2

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. Votes: 2

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time. Votes: 2

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old. Votes: 2

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. Votes: 2

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced. Votes: 2

Life without music is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable. Votes: 0

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely. Votes: 0

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. Votes: 0

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable. Votes: 0

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable. Votes: 0

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits. Votes: 0

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible. Votes: 0

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before. Votes: 0

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body Votes: 0

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it. Votes: 0

In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it. Votes: 0

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. Votes: 0

Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable. Votes: 0

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable. Votes: 0

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Votes: 0

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable. Votes: 0

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. Votes: 0

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment. Votes: 0

Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights. Votes: 0

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. Votes: 0

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. Votes: 0

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. Votes: 0

Somehow he'd gone and done the unthinkable. The idiotic. He had fallen in love." Votes: 0

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. Votes: 0

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. Votes: 0

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Votes: 0

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one. Votes: 0

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. Votes: 0

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. Votes: 0

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. Votes: 0

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world Votes: 0

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. Votes: 0

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. Votes: 0

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. Votes: 0

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. Votes: 0

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence. Votes: 0

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Votes: 0

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. Votes: 0

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed. Votes: 0

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. Votes: 0

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable Votes: 0

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. Votes: 0

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. Votes: 0

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. Votes: 0

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. Votes: 0

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men. Votes: 0

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. Votes: 0

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model. Votes: 0

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? Votes: 0

Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish. Votes: 0

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated. Votes: 0

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable. Votes: 0

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. Votes: 0

Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive. Votes: 0

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous. Votes: 0

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. Votes: 0

Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture. Votes: 0

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce Votes: 0

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it. Votes: 0

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. Votes: 0

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom. Votes: 0

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful. Votes: 0

I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable. Votes: 0

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? Votes: 0

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is. Votes: 0

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million. Votes: 0

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable. Votes: 0

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future. Votes: 0

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else. Votes: 0

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence. Votes: 0

At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic. Votes: 0

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. Votes: 0

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable. Votes: 0

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either. Votes: 0

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable. Votes: 0

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable. Votes: 0

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. Votes: 0

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. Votes: 0

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin. Votes: 0

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake. Votes: 0

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure Votes: 0

In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety. Votes: 0

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person. Votes: 0

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war. Votes: 0

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it. Votes: 0

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. Votes: 0

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence." Votes: 0

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it. Votes: 0

The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community. Votes: 0

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,. Votes: 0

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Votes: 0

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy. Votes: 0

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up. Votes: 0

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance. Votes: 0

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. Votes: 0

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it. Votes: 0

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore. Votes: 0

Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago. Votes: 0

The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young. Votes: 0

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity. Votes: 0

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable. Votes: 0