#unthinkable

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #events #extraordinary #extraordinary things #human

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

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

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

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

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy. ↗

— Evan Davis

#clothes #comedy #dare #decided #front

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#concerned #only #poet #poor #statistician

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#comes #dedicated #development #further #impossible