Best Unattainable Quotes
131 Unattainable quotes by 121 unique authors
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The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
— Emile Durkheim
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Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal
— William Lane Craig
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?…
— William Peter Blatty
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We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.
— Michael Shermer
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
— Robert Ardrey
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Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.
— Stephen Watson
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Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets
— J. R. D. Tata
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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
— George Wald
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In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an…
— Wilfred Thesiger
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When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
— Jonny Wilkinson
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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
— Vince Lombardi
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Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
— Lisa Genova
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I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't…
— Jamie McGuire
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Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
— Muhammad Ali
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
— Irving Howe
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Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their…
— George Friedman
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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
— Oswald Chambers
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The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment…
— Ken Robinson
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or…
— Sigmund Freud
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Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and I have to…
— Lindsay Lohan
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