A Quote by Tom Peters

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

Tom Peters

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Tom Peters
American - Businessman
Born: November 7, 1942

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

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

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

Arundhati Roy

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

John Ashcroft

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

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

Naomi Alderman

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

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

Helene Cixous

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Francis Schaeffer

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Gary Zukav

The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

Julian Huxley

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

Robert Silverberg

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Norman Thomas

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

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