Unthinkable Quotes - Page 5

• The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

  Neil Sheehan

  Country, War, Two

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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• This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable.
  What are we touching right here and now?

  Soen Nakagawa

  Touching, World, Wonderful

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• Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, People, Rude

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.67, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Loss, Would Be, Honey

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

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• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

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• Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Practice, Voice

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• Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Violence, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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• In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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

  Song, Keys, Listening

  Source: afrotoronto.com

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• On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospect. Furthermore, Trump's pursuit of Obama's programs of modernization of the nuclear forces poses extraordinary dangers. As we have recently learned, the modernized U.S. nuclear force is seriously fraying the slender thread on which survival is suspended.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Survival, Serious

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

  Frances Hardinge

  Thinking, Want, Speakers

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• Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

  Mark Nepo

  Long, Matter, Way

  Mark Nepo (2000). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have”, p.410, Conari Press

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• We're at the end of long cycle that began in 1945, loading the economy with debt. We're not going to be able to get out of it until you write down the debts. But that's what the IMF believes is unthinkable. It can't say that, because it's supposed to represent the interest of the banks.

  Michael Hudson

  Believe, Writing, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great literature even to those who have never known it performed. The same is evidently not true of Dylan.

  David Bennun

  Artist, Impact, Play

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

  Amos Oz

  Vices, Hebrew, Vice Versa

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• I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Years, People, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn't really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we'd finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I've had. I couldn't believe that Barry had the passion for it.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Believe, Passion, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Coincidence

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I guess the answer would be yes." "Got to love that word." He kissed her so sweetly then, it brought tears to her eyes. "Got it in you to say it again?" And then he did the unthinkable. He went down on one knee.

  Cindy Gerard

  Eye, Tears, Would Be

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.105, Macmillan

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• High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Genius, Unexpected

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• I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.

  Katie Kitamura

  Fashion, Art, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Death, Fall, Thinking

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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