Inconceivable Quotes
150 Inconceivable quotes by 134 unique authors
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not…
— Olaf Stapledon
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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way…
— Chaim Potok
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Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.
— David Cone
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Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world…
— Brooks Atkinson
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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is…
— John Ruskin
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Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
— Paula Poundstone
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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
— Max Planck
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
— Doris Lessing
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
— Andre Maurois
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays…
— Jean Rostand
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time…
— Zadie Smith
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It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make…
— Debra Winger
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I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of…
— Gary Zukav
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His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded…
— Joseph Conrad
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If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of…
— Philip Pullman
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And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological…
— Jack Kerouac
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We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
— Carlos Castaneda
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
Who Wrote These Inconceivable Quotes
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