#unthinkable

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #children #down #down the road #horrors

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#now #september #thinkable #unthinkable #world

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#children #leave #unthinkable #art

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#god #guilty #innocent #unthinkable

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#i #i think #life #lives #our

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#anyone #barrel #been #bring #certainly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable." ↗

— Petra Kelly

#century #faced #faces #generation #impossible

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#could #crawl #dead #exhausted #lay