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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
Malcolm Gladwell
People
Opportunities
Doors
Changes
Otherwise
Ways
Seemed
Fact
Fail
Underdog
Unthinkable
Opens
Permits
Often
Being
Might
Creates
Things
Enlightens
Appreciate
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
Good
Politician
Unthinkable
Quite
Burglar
Honest
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
Good
Dark
Fear
Denial
Dark Side
Every
Good Intentions
Side
Our
Out
Shame
Drives
Self-Destruction
Unthinkable
Referred
Often
Psyche
Human
Intentions
Us
Act
Human Psyche
Origin
Acts
Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.
Anthony Scaramucci
Behavior
Thought
Panic
Adjusting
Logic
Seemingly
Rational
Taking
Implies
Unthinkable
Powerless
Subject
Frozen
Place
Incapable
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
Archibald MacLeish
God
Innocent
Guilty
No Choice
Unthinkable
Choice
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
Frans de Waal
Morality
Empathy
Unthinkable
Without
Human
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
Life
Needs
Impossible
Nothing
Further
Out
Development
Unthinkable
Balanced
Provided
Person
Dedicated
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins
Impossible
Achieve
Thought
Must
Unthinkable
Precisely
Why do I leave the March for Life every year happier than when I came? Hope and gratefulness are the reasons. Gratefulness for the life we have and the life we've given and hope for the future, to live in a world where abortion becomes unthinkable.
Abby Johnson
Life
Hope
Future
World
Abortion
Year
Live
Every
Given
Unthinkable
Becomes
Leave
Came
Than
Where
Happier
Reasons
Why
March
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Amin Maalouf
Youth
Others
Uncles
Idea
Like
Unthinkable
Cuba
Go
Lebanon
Left
Began
Australia
America
Egypt
Realise
Moving
Might
Grandfather
Then
Who
Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.
Amos Oz
Happiness
Think
Lasting
Something
Never
Unthinkable
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Moments
Believed
You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
Andrew Greeley
You
Culture
Seriously
Rules
Born
More
Take
Unthinkable
Catholic
Because
Italy
Lot
Just
Stop
Being
Your
You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.
Anthony Holden
Saying
You
People
Debate
Three
Unthinkable
Years
Years Ago
Get
Famous
Poll
Want
Rid
Shown
Even
Monarchy
Now
Four
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
Antonio Damasio
Feelings
Changes
Our
Would
Would-Be
Like
Unthinkable
Reacting
Self-Image
Without
How
Stimuli
Representation
Much
Certain
Body
Based
Consciousness
In my min,d there is arguably a greater risk of a default on the debt of a U.S. state than there is on the debt of a euro-area member. I consider it unthinkable that a euro-area country would default.
Athanasios Orphanides
Country
State
Consider
Member
Would
Risk
Arguably
Unthinkable
Greater
Debt
Than
Default
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
Barry Pepper
Time
Exhausted
Those
Thousands
Beaches
Lay
Could
No Time
Unthinkable
Dead
Were
Up
Crawl
Them
I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel. Everything has meaning. My students were not allowed not to like him!
Brigitte Macron
Me
Passion
Everything
Scalpel
Madame
Someone
Writes
Students
Allowed
He
Boundless
Like
Unthinkable
Him
Read
Were
Might
Meaning
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
War
Will
Seen
Too
Insane
Madmen
Take
Unthinkable
Still
Conventional
Place
Used
Acts
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
Charles Krauthammer
War
First
Thinking
Consists
Destructive
Promising
Threats
Prevent
Purpose
Cruel
Retaliation
Unthinkable
Beyond
Doctrine
Involves
First Place
Making
Place
Nuclear
Imagining
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
Poet
Statistician
Only
Unthinkable
Concerned
Very
Poor
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
Good
Yourself
Sometimes
Comedy
Clothes
Dare
Rather
Unthinkable
Audience
Go
Than
Front
Decided
Stand
Stand-Up Comedy
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
Gary Ackerman
People
Telling
Unthinkable
Children
Inhumane
When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
Grace Lee Boggs
Country
Few
Thrust
Almost
Idea
Invisible
Between
Unthinkable
Were
Up
American
Movement
Asian
Asian-American
Asians
Far
Growing
Growing Up
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
Thought
Heritage
Our
Background
Dante
Would
Would-Be
Only
Both
Part
Divorced
Unthinkable
Within
Context
Understood
Italian
Cultural
German
Common
Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.
Henry Paulson
Presidency
Put
Simply
Unthinkable
Trump
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
Thoughts
World
Think
Changing
Complex
Dare
Possibilities
Rapidly
Must
Unthinkable
Learn
Options
Confront
Us
Explore
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