A Quote by Frances Hardinge

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Frances Hardinge

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Frances Hardinge
British - Author
Born: 1973

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

Frances Hardinge

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.

Frances Hardinge

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

Tom Peters

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Helene Cixous

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

John Ashcroft

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

John Ashcroft

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Arundhati Roy

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

Salman Rushdie

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Nick Johnson

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

John Stuart Mill

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

Naomi Alderman

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.