Top 34 Let's Do The Unthinkable Quotes
#1. What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
John Ashcroft
#2. How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#3. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.
Heather Stang
#4. I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
John Shirley
#5. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
Bertrand Russell
#6. 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.
Thomas Berry
#7. 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.
Thorsten Heins
#8. If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.
Christopher Fowler
#9. Think the unthinkable,
Imagine the impossible
Pursue the imaginations limits.
Allan Weisbecker
#10. There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with sorrow. There is so much that happens to the human heart that is in the realm of the unthinkable, the unknowable, the unbearable. (95)
Robert Goolrick
#11. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#12. The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.
Tom Robbins
#13. I couldn't imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn't imagine having a child to leave.
V.T. Davy
#14. Then he does the absolutely, positively unthinkable.
He winks at me.
Lauren Oliver
#15. It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...
Elizabeth Glaser
#16. The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
Tom Peters
#17. The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.
Mario Puzo
#18. People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
Francis Schaeffer
#19. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
#20. There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
#21. Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.
Carew Papritz
#22. 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.
Wouter Van Gastel
#23. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#24. As my mind swirled into a whirlwind of emotion, the unthinkable happened. My heart filled with hope.
Scott Hildreth
#25. 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.
Carol Tavris
#26. 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.
Warren Buffett
#27. The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
Luis Figo
#28. It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.
Janet Fitch
#29. The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
Wolfgang Smith
#30. 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.
Gustav Stresemann
#31. 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.
Clarice Lispector
#32. My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
Carre Otis
#33. 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.
Douglas Adams
#34. I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Jordan Belfort
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