prehensible Quotes and Quotations
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. Poppy Z. Brite | top
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. Gavin Bryars | top
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. Martin Buber | top
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If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. James L. Buckley | top
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Some of my instincts are reprehensible. William F. Buckley, Jr. | top
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I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. Jan Egeland | top
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible. John Ensign | top
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I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. Robin Gibb | top
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco | top
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Karl Jaspers | top
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. Kevin Kline | top
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Alfred A. Knopf | top
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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing. Nicholas D. Kristof | top
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Letitia Landon | top
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. Origen | top
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. Plutarch | top
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. Elliot Richardson | top
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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. Michael Scheuer | top
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South | top
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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. Ivan Turgenev | top
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It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. Mark Udall | top
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. Queen Victoria | top
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution. An Wang | top
