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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

Jason Epstein

Book, Taken, Hands

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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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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

Charles Horton Cooley

Lying, Communication, Ideas

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

Marisha Pessl

Hurt, Morning, Pain

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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

Kwame Nkrumah

Men, White Man, People

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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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