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You should name him Fezzik." "Inconceivable. -- Ilona Andrews
Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -- William Goldman
Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good. -- Ilona Andrews
We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war) -- Max Hastings
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. -- Gertrude Stein
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. -- Andre Maurois
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. -- W.S. Gilbert
It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories. -- Juan Enriquez
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. -- Aaron Copland
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. -- Noam Chomsky
Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation. -- James Marsh
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. -- Joseph Addison
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. -- Doris Lessing
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. -- Roland Allen
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. -- Zadie Smith
It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever. -- Debra Winger
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. -- Andrea Dworkin
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable. -- Elisabetta Canalis
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. -- Jean Rostand
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets. -- Paul Davies
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. -- Michael Ignatieff
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. -- Doris Lessing
I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. -- James Forrestal
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. -- Gary Zukav
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about. -- Maureen Dowd
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II. -- Friedrich St. Florian
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. -- Barbara Holland
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. -- Anton Chekhov
Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it. -- Jim Valvano
A communication highway without content is inconceivable. -- Hubert Burda
We hear inconceivable, but cannot see the intangible. -- Akiane Kramarik
Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable. -- David Platt
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness. -- Jonathan Edwards
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind. -- Lin Yutang
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love. -- Daniel Handler
It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything -- William J. Clinton
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable. -- Albert Einstein
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. -- W.S. Gilbert
It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together. -- Michael Tomasello
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. -- Bruno Frey
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. -- Bill Loguidice
This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable. -- Rory Stewart
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. -- Samuel Reshevsky
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. -- Emile M. Cioran
The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one. -- Ilyas Kassam
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. -- Adolf Hitler
In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable. -- Najib Razak
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious. -- Max Planck
Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable. -- Newt Gingrich
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly. -- Gene Cernan
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. -- George Eliot
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. -- Koichiro Matsuura
If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs. -- Gautama Buddha
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable -- Aldous Huxley
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds. -- Carlos Castaneda
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. -- Elias Canetti
She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too. -- Anna Godbersen
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else. -- George Bernard Shaw
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government. -- James Jesus Angleton
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? -- Edgar Allan Poe
Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State. -- Otto Ohlendorf
Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept. -- Bhakti Charu Swami
The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position. -- Monica Esposito
Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s. -- David Cone
Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas. -- Serzh Sargsyan
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep. -- Paula Poundstone
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. -- Isak Dinesen
It's inconceivable that you don't have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn't have to be somewhat foolproof. -- Donald Trump
I don't think I've ever met nachos that I didn't like before. It's almost inconceivable that nachos can be bad. It makes no sense. -- Pete Wells
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. -- Peter Wessel Zapffe
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. -- Joseph Conrad
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity. -- Henry David Thoreau
Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be. -- Anne Ortlund
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved, -- Alan Keyes
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty. -- Michael Novak
Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable. -- Stephen Shore
Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing. -- T.F. Hodge
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. -- Chaim Potok
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. -- Anton Chekhov
Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains -- Dogen
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives. -- Bob Woodward
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable. -- Carlos Castaneda
Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable. -- Jacques Ellul
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. -- Laura Linney
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. -- Charles Dickens
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. -- Dan Simmons
I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789. -- Roger Mahony
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. -- Joseph Conrad
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man. -- William E. Gladstone
It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger. -- Bo Derek
"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving! -- Abd-Ru-Shin

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