Unquantifiable Quotes

#1. A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Alan Moore

#2. The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.

Emma Shane

#3. I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable.

Scott Bradfield

#4. At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness.

Charles Eisenstein

#6. Let us say once again that the doctrine of the Trinity does not divide God up into "thirds." Because God is Spirit, God is unquantifiable and indivisible. Any other view of God is really pagan, anthropomorphic, and materialistic. Hence,

Gregory A. Boyd

#7. Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

James Ellroy

#8. Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Charisse Montgomery

#9. I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

Douglas Rushkoff

#10. The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.

Caroline Goodall

#11. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

#12. Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.

Ruth Cardello

#13. What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

Wally Olins

#14. [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking

#15. Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

David Foster Wallace

#16. We must remember this when we are ready to reach for the sky.
God came down and confused man's language and scattered them.

Toba Beta

#17. Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

Tristan Tzara

#18. Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Lucretius

#19. I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

#20. In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Jane Fonda

#21. Hey," he said, and we all turned to look at him. Deke nodded at the floor. "The lady fainted," he said, and we all turned to look where he had nodded. Mrs. Aldovar, as advertised, was out cold on the floor.

Jeff Lindsay

#22. For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

Herodotus

#23. Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Lleyton Hewitt

#24. Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No more fights. You get that mad again, shoot the bastard. Promise me.

Mary Doria Russell

#25. I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon