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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. -- H. L. Mencken
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. -- Salman Rushdie
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. -- Andre Gide
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
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. -- J. William Fulbright
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
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. -- Milan Kundera
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. -- J. William Fulbright
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened -- Arundhati Roy
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. -- Samuel Butler
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. -- Lawrence Durrell
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. -- Gary Zukav
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. -- Arthur Keith
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. -- J. William Fulbright
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. -- E. M. Forster
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. -- H. L. Mencken
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
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
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. -- Angela Thirkell
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. -- William Gibson
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. -- Samuel Beckett
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. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now? -- Soen Nakagawa
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. -- Garry Kasparov
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. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
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. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. -- Frans de Waal
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane. -- Gary Ackerman
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. -- John Ashcroft
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. -- Wilfred Owen
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
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. -- Stockwell Day
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.' -- Petra Kelly
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. -- John Darnielle
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. -- Antonio Damasio
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Charles Krauthammer
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. -- Zubin Mehta
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
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. -- Norman Foster
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Life without music is unthinkable. -- Leonard Bernstein
Socialism without democracy is unthinkable. -- Karl Kautsky
Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable. -- Henry Miller
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely. -- Tom Peters
Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. -- Moshe Feldenkrais
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. -- Boris Pasternak
You have to be willing to think the unthinkable. -- Toni Morrison
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable. -- Paul Keating
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. -- Virginia Woolf
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. -- Suzanne Collins
Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits. -- Allan Weisbecker
In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible. -- Cullen Murphy
The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before. -- Wolfgang Smith
Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body -- Karl Marlantes
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it. -- Robert Silverberg
In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it. -- J.R. Rim
If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable. -- Josephine Tey
Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable. -- Catherine Destivelle
Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable. -- Olen Steinhauer
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. -- Neil Sheehan
You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable. -- Christina Rasmussen
I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. -- Sonali Deraniyagala
The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment. -- Peter Kenyon
Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights. -- M.J. Moores
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. -- Wislawa Szymborska
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. -- Nick Murray
Somehow he'd gone and done the unthinkable. The idiotic. He had fallen in love." -- Rosalie Lario
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. -- Murray Bookchin
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. -- Robert Breault
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. -- John W. Gardner
High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. -- Helene Cixous
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. -- Luis Figo
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. -- John Shirley
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world -- John Ashcroft
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. -- C. S. Lewis
A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. -- Nick Johnson
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. -- Archibald MacLeish
I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. -- Michael Parkinson
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence. -- Milan Kundera
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. -- Amos Oz
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. -- Francis Schaeffer
That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed. -- Amitav Ghosh
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable -- Wilfred Owen
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. -- Swami Vivekananda
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. -- Branch Rickey
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. -- Judith Martin
It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men. -- Frank Knox
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. -- Steven Soderbergh
My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model. -- Carre Otis
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish. -- Mitt Romney
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. -- Mohamed El-Erian
When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated. -- Jason Wu
A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable. -- Kim Wayans
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. -- Ernest Lehman
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
Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous. -- James Marcus Bach
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. -- Leonard Bernstein
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it. -- Hugh Hefner
In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. -- Sela Ward
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom. -- Lucy Burns
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
I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable. -- Drake
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? -- Randall Terry
We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is. -- Newt Gingrich
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. -- Carl Sagan
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. -- Norman Thomas

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