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Quotes About Inconceivable

"Inconceivable!" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
~ William Goldman
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~ William Goldman
In many societies – and American societies of that time appear to have been among them – it would have been quite inconceivable to refuse a request for food. For seventeenth-century Frenchmen in North America, this was clearly not the case: their range of baseline communism appears to have been quite restricted, and did not extend to food and shelter – something which scandalized Americans.
~ David Graeber
Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing could be more awe-inspiring and majestic than the inconceivable vastness and stillness of space, and yet what is it? Emptiness, vast emptiness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.
~ Rene Char
It seemed inconceivable, but during the morning hours the wind actually rose
~ Alfred Lansing
What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?
~ Ally Carter
Había algo en ella de aparición inconcebible que no puede decirse con palabras y sólo conociéndola lograría explicarse la desmesurada fortuna que fue estar a su lado y la tortura inaudita que ha sido perderla.
~ Alvaro Mutis
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
~ Dan Rather
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
~ Richard J. Ferris
It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.
~ Richard Paul Evans
You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress." "Exactly," I said. "Impossible.
~ Robert B. Parker
La historia cotidiana de nuestro país está escrita así: todo lo que parece que es, no es. Todo lo que debería de ser, tampoco será. Lo que realmente está sucediendo es lo impensable, lo improbable, lo imposible.
~ Denise Dresser
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
~ Antonin Scalia
Oh, Dios mío, es inconcebible! ¡No puedo vivir sin mi vida! ¡No puedo vivir si mi alma!
~ Emily Bronte
A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable.
~ Epictetus
Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the welfare state established at the same time as our legal aid system - being diagnosed with a major illness and needing the NHS, or losing a job and needing the support of social security.
~ Sadiq Khan
There are two crucial values without which human life is simply inconceivable. One is security, a measure of security, feeling safe. The other is freedom, ability to self-assert, to do what you really would like to do and so on. They are both necessary. Security without freedom is slavery. Freedom without security is complete chaos where you are lost, abandoned, you don't know what to do.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Young then quotes Calvin, "In a word, the Prophet here describes to us the inconceivable carefulness with which God unceasingly watches over our salvation, that we may be fully convinced that he will never forsake us, though we may be afflicted with great and numerous calamities."1
~ Jerry Bridges
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
~ William Gilbert
Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
~ Lewis Carroll
The pushing, the scrambling, the hustle and bustle apart from which politics is inconceivable, utterly disgust me. My delight is contemplation and delineation.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger