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• I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

  Charlaine Harris

  Selfish, Want, Way

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• The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sky, Giving, Vision

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.395, Discovery House

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• Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

  George Friedman

  Adventure, Issues, Goal

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.3, Anchor

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• When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

  Peter Høeg

  Mother, Taken, Mean

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• If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Self, Doing You

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that's just something girls feel. It's hard. You want to be that girl that's unattainable to all the guys because there are so many other girls out there that are like that.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Girl, Years, Role Models

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Envy, Causes

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• The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

  Gilbert Highet

  Demand, Sincerity, Young

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Expression

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• The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all.
  The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all.
  The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it.
  The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Numbers, Way

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• You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Upheaval

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• Attain the unattainable.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Success

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• These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Airplane, Voice

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, Poetry, Endeavour

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

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• What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Reality, Ideas, Appreciate

  "'Fantasy Island's' Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• It means a lot that fans feel connected to us and care about us, and that means the world, because that's what we want. We don't want them to feel like we're unattainable because we're just like them. We're all normal kids but somehow we got lucky when we picked up a guitar.

  Taylor York

  Mean, Kids, Guitar

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Past, Fire

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Data, Goal

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• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

  Elsa Barker

  Light, Shining, Fields

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

  Brené Brown

  Self, Perfect, Goal

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perfection, Strive, This Life

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• Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Sleep, Night

  J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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• The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

  Ken Robinson

  Commitment, Creative, Excellence

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.84, Penguin

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• Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Firsts, Prize

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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