Unimaginable Quotes - Page 3

• I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.

  John Eccles

  Believe, Brain, Inheritance

  "Facing Reality : Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist" by John Carew Eccles, (p. 83), 1970.

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• Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic - even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Home

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Writing, Littles

  "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.

  Waqar Younis

  Genius, Hitting, Six

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• While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

  Robert Mankoff

  Believe, Opportunity, World

  "Reality check: for real sustainability, some economies will need to shrink" by Erik Assadourian, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2014.

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• The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

  Hisham Melhem

  Political, Islam, Brutality

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• But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

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• In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

  Kedar Joshi

  Grief, Joy, Solitude

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• Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Greatness, Mind, Body

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• In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

  Peter Piot

  Ebola, Tragedy

  "In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy", www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2014.

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• how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

  e. e. cummings

  Breathing, Touching, Doubt

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

  William Styron

  Suicide, Pain, Prevention

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Long, Worry

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Blessed, Humor

  "The Second Hundred Days: The Quiz" by Paul Slansky, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2001.

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• There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Blessing, Goal

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• I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Agony, Trance, Remembered

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.4

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• My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

  David Foster Wallace

  Technology, Two, Years

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Faces, Oppression, Somalia

  "Kidnapping survivor tells of 460 days of hell". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.stuff.co.nz. September 04, 2013.

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• Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.

  Sam Harris

  New York, Book, Cities

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• It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.

  Proclus

  Life, Taken, Math

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• I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

  William Shatner

  Years, Gone, Multimedia

  "William Shatner reflects on 50 years of Star Trek". Interview with James Dyer, www.empireonline.com. July 18, 2016.

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• We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Photography, Communication, Thinking

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Blessed, Oil, Car

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