#conceivable

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

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 a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#body #chance #create #crowd #given

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#almost #any #britain #i #inconceivable

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. ↗

— James Forrestal

#did #even #gang #hitler #inconceivable

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#basic #children #conceivable #crimes #duty

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#bridges #conceivable #day #each #end

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#every #occasion #should #used

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#conceivable #curses #decent #getting #gone

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 on any single subject. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beings #feel #half #human #human beings