Unimaginable Quotes

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Cynthia Ozick

Inspirational, Imagination, Use

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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver

Dream, Heart, Imagination

Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press

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He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell

Past, Nineteen, 1984 Important

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

R.L. LaFevers

Children, Blessed, Past

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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Alan Turing

People, Sometimes, Imagine

"An Oscars Speech That Reaches Out to the Rejected and the Misunderstood" by Colette Douglas Home, www.heraldscotland.com. February 24, 2015.

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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

Harry S. Truman

Numbers, Mind, Patch Up

Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

Love, Memories, Passion

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Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Courage, Determination, Risk

Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.273, ReadHowYouWant.com

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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

William C. Kirby

War, Thinking, East

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Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Marsha Blackburn

War, President, Middle East

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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Joan Chen

Jobs, Children, Parent

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

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The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.

Dwight Schultz

New York, Thinking, Opposites

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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

Diane Wood

Time, Long, Focus

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Georges Bataille

God, Pain, Mean

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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Olympia Snowe

Thinking, Environmental, Friendly

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There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

John S. Herrington

Dream, Innovation, Frontiers

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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Yann Martel

Believe, People

Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.30, Knopf Canada

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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

Science, Trying, Problem

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To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.

Amber Hollibaugh

Dream, Struggle, Vision

Source: www.truth-out.org

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If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.

Chris Guillebeau

Want, Achieve, Ifs

Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.18, Harmony

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The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Geoffrey Beene

Unforgettable

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Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Robert Adams

Beauty, Light, Sun

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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Anton Chekhov

So Sad, Feels

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To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Ali Smith

Wells, Known

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To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from you head but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego but a truth from the highest source. You have to be willing to be deeply honest with yourself about the shape your life is in each day.

Debbie Ford

Heart, Light, New Day

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