Unthinkable famous quotes

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
-- Arundhati Roy

#Impossible #Unthinkable #Thinkable

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
-- Barry Pepper

#Beach #Exhausted #Unthinkable

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
-- Carre Otis

#Weight #Plus #Unthinkable

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Artist #Ornaments #Unthinkable

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
-- Ernest Lehman

#Writing #Territory #Unthinkable

We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.
-- Ferran Adria

#Secret #Recipes #Unthinkable

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 #Unthinkable

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.
-- Frank Knox

#Men #Force #Unthinkable

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
-- Frans de Waal

#Empathy #Morality #Unthinkable

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
-- Gary Ackerman

#Children #People #Unthinkable

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
-- John Ashcroft

#September 11 #World #Unthinkable

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss

#Purpose #May #Unthinkable

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Limits #Unthinkable

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
-- Murray Bookchin

#Impossible #Unthinkable

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
-- Nick Johnson

#Starting #Unthinkable #Thinkable

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.
-- Paul Keating

#Australia #Would Be #Unthinkable

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
-- Robert Silverberg

#Unthinkable

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
-- Wilfred Owen

#Historical #Soldier #Unthinkable

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
-- Wolfgang Smith

#Unthinkable #Thesis

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
-- Olen Steinhauer

#Dream #Ability #Unthinkable

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
-- Karl Kautsky

#Democracy #Socialism #Unthinkable