#unthinkable

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

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

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#complex #confront #dare #explore #learn

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

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#impossible #must #precisely #thought #unthinkable

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

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #events #extraordinary #extraordinary things #human

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#countries #each #occurred #other #two

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. ↗

— John Shirley

#culture #i #images #into #people