Quotes About Unthinkable

#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. 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.

Lewis Mumford

#34. Rasheed was a fixed entity, an unchanging, finished, permanent person, and the thought of teaching him anything was as unthinkable as training a turtle to sing. Turtles cannot sing and fathers cannot change. Neither fact demands alteration.

Karim Dimechkie

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

Andre Gide

#36. Each small accommodation of my physical environment is an admission that things are not improving, that this is not some fleeting horror, that perhaps...But that is the unthinkable thought.

Anna Lyndsey

#37. More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him.

Sarah Ferguson

#38. A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#39. You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

Marianne Williamson

#40. Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

Tony Jones

#41. When men seek after the Immutable, the Indeterminable, the Unmanifest, the All-Pervading, the Unthinkable, the Summit Self, the Immobile, the Permanent, - equal in mind to all,
intent on the good of all beings, it is to Me that they come.

Anonymous

#42. 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.

Richard Gere

#43. If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

Josephine Tey

#44. The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

Suzanne Collins

#45. You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

Christina Rasmussen

#46. Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Karl Marlantes

#47. One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

#48. If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

Mikhail Bakunin

#49. Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Tana French

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

Mark Victor Hansen

#51. Dan's voice was rough and low as he murmured against Vadim's lips. 'I hate you, Russkie.' No. He didn't, but he couldn't find the right word for this. This feeling. Hatred was the closest he could get. The alternative was still unthinkable.

Aleksandr Voinov

#52. For love, people consider the unthinkable . . . and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power." The

Renee Ahdieh

#53. I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.

Michael Cunningham

#54. 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.

Vijay Seshadri

#55. 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.

John Updike

#56. So I stuck that in the back of my mental filing cabinet too, under the drawer labeled: Unthinkable.

Jojo Moyes

#57. It felt as if a thing that had been impossible had become possible, a thing that had been unthinkable had become thinkable, and Luka did not want to give that terrifying thing a name.

Salman Rushdie

#58. She didn't give her girlish attire a second thought as she jumped for the first branch and pulled herself off the ground. It was funny how adrenaline helped you do the unthinkable when fear ran through your blood.

Tory Richards

#59. You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Andrew Greeley

#60. The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Douglas Coupland

#61. You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Toni Morrison

#62. Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Frans De Waal

#63. 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

#64. We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

#65. I am delicate and the world is impossibly wrong, is unthinkable and I am not forewarned, forearmed, equipped. I cannot manage. If there was something useful I could do, I would - but there isn't. So I drink.

A. L. Kennedy

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

Bill Bryson

#67. Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

Wong Kiew Kit

#68. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

#69. It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Arundhati Roy

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

Mohamed El-Erian

#71. Only through fiction can we think about the unthinkable...

Stephen King

#72. she was this close to getting the guts and becoming the unthinkable and loathsome family enemy - an Independent Author.

Lucian Bane

#73. 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.

Sarah Weddington

#74. Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Arthur Keith

#75. A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Nick Johnson

#76. As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared for the unthinkable. Supplies and a plan will significantly reduce panic and chaos in the event of an emergency.

Mike Crapo

#77. But by God sometimes you have to be able to think about the unthinkable!

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

J. William Fulbright

#79. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Judith Martin

#80. Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable.

Josephine Tey

#81. 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.

Clement Greenberg

#82. I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Michael Parkinson

#83. Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

Henry Miller

#84. To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.

John Christopher

#85. 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.

Dana Spiotta

#86. Don't you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies ...

Samuel B. Southwell

#87. Belonging: that was the name for it. More tempting than sex and so far out of the question as to be unthinkable.

Angela B. Wade

#88. I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#89. From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Adolf Eichmann

#90. [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.

Paulo Freire

#91. If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.

Lawrence L. Langer

#92. Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

Robert Silverberg

#93. 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

#94. Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

James Marcus Bach

#95. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera

#96. Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Nick Murray

#97. It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

Sarah Dessen

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

Branch Rickey

#99. What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

Thomas Ligotti

#100. I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

Oliver Kahn