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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Douglas Adams

London theatre without Dan is unthinkable. He was the veins that kept the old King's Head theatre blood plasma flowing.

Maureen Lipman

While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who have been brutally murdered by predators, it can save other families the anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable of violent acts.

Katherine Harris

To kick us when we're down and destroy hope... is absolutely unthinkable.

Kathleen Blanco

I still can't imagine someone doing this. It's unthinkable. They have to answer for what they've done.

Marjorie Smith

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

I picked up Australia at 20/1 and then 45/1. Only for consolation reasons should the unthinkable happen, of course. Please don't let me collect this, boys.

Chris Weston

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

John Shirley

It is simply unthinkable that someone would beat another human being for sport. We need to send a message to these abhorrent criminals that being homeless does not make you target practice.

Rep. Priscilla Taylor

The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.

Phyllis Rose

The unthinkable happened and nothing can undo it.

Martin Jamtlid

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Michael Parkinson

How does severing economic relations bring about the changes opponents say they want? ... It would be unthinkable for the Congress not to approve this historic legislation.

Bill Archer

We should think very hard whether it makes sense to continue the talks under such circumstances. A grand coalition without Merkel at the top is completely unthinkable.

Friedbert Pflueger

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months.

Ghalib

The thought of rewarding sports champions by de-penalizing the use of drugs at the Turin Olympics is unthinkable.

Francesco Storace

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

Richard Gere

Many people there had lost everything, their house, loved ones and all they had left, all they had left was their best friend, ... The idea that people had to leave them behind was unthinkable and inhumane.

Royce Osborn

It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat.

Jacques Audiard

Oliver had a hot run, but this age group was really tough. Kids are stepping it up doing tricks that were unthinkable for their age just a few years ago.

Miah Wheeler

The biggest challenge is getting people to think the unthinkable.

Sandra Shewry

(But) to allow these men to return to society as if one of the worst massacres of the 20th century never took place -- that's unthinkable.

Sidney Jones

I have spent a week trying to come to grips with everything. It was unfathomable, unthinkable, unspeakable.

Philip Taubman

Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Judith Martin

There is likely to be much deliberation over such a bid and it is almost unthinkable that the U.K. government would not become involved.

Keith Bowman

As individuals, they can make the decision to self-insure, but as an advisor, it is unthinkable. They should purchase health insurance before they do anything else.

Steve Carter

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

AMD did the unthinkable by surpassing Intel in October. Continuing to hold this lead in the holiday season would be a colossal win for the company.

Matt Sargent

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

J. William Fulbright

On Nov. 22...the last dike broke and madness flooded in. What happened there was unthinkable and unspeakable.

David Haynes

We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable' thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

J. William Fulbright

You have to be prepared for the unthinkable and, in this case, we were not prepared. Every community in America should use this as a wake-up call.

Mike Fox

In Britain the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable.

Norman Foster

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Adolf Eichmann

This situation calls for the company's going into crisis mode, adopting a degree of urgency that recognizes if things don't break right, the unthinkable could happen, that time is of the essence.

Jerry York

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this.

Charlie Crist

It's unthinkable that so many animals will die a horrific death in such a short space of time.

Rebecca Aldworth

"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."

Leonard Bernstein

These are steps that could not have happened even two years ago. It would have been unthinkable, suicidal for us even to try them.

Dan Gillerman

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

These were clearly people who were informed of the unthinkable, digested it, and acted upon it in no time at all.

Hamilton Peterson

People always have thought that the White House was the center of Washington, but it was Kay's house, ... It seems really unthinkable that she's not there anymore, that that big house on the hill will be empty.

Sally Quinn

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. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

J. William Fulbright

It had no customers for the next five years. It made no money for 15 years. It's almost unthinkable in today's terms that an investment bank could exist for 15 years without making any money. But they did.

Lisa Endlich

With the death toll still rising, it will take untold millions of dollars to get back some semblance of life along the nation's Gulf Coast. Most of us will never truly understand what it is like to have your life turned upside down overnight. No place to call your own. To become homeless in a day is unthinkable.

Alan Curtis Green

I had hoped we would never see the NHL owners and their commissioner do the unthinkable and cancel an entire NHL season.

Bob Goodenow

I've had dozens of conversations in El Salvador over the years with people who said it would be simply unthinkable for any group of low-ranking guardsmen to kill four North American women without having been ordered to do so, that the system just didn't work that way.

William Ford

Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable.

Russell Yates

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

We should have an open mind about the kind of levers that we apply and not be afraid to think the unthinkable.

Elliot Morley