Inconceivable Quotes

With these cuts, the state now has little or no ability to help communities apply the scientific findings in ways that improve safety and reduce risk. It seems inconceivable that, living here in a region of such high geological hazard, we're dismantling the state's program for reducing that hazard. - Craig Weaver

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

What rural people put up with is inconceivable to city people. - John Vickers

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. - Susan Sontag

We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response. - Scott McClellan

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s. - David Cone

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. - Aaron Copland

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other. - Roland Barthes