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If we had not stepped up, the cost would have been unthinkable and unforgivable. – Liz Truss	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I wouldn't discount a 100 basis point rate hike, it was only a few months ago when a 50 basis point hike seemed unthinkable. – Marvin Loh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You have this idea that the ruling elite are living very lavishly, while being very corrupt, and the ordinary person is in grave difficulty, to go from being perceived as heroes, to being chased out of your own home is unthinkable. It's a complete fall from grace. – Ganeshan Wignaraja	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Unthinkable : Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy. – Jamie Raskin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
It is not possible that this ends without costs for German society, it is unthinkable, i believe that we are ready to pay this price which is small enough compared to the sufferings in Ukraine. – Robert Habeck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility. – Ukraine Signs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's unthinkable to me, it's almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that. – Mitt Romney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's unthinkable to me, it's almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that, but, of course, they do it because if they get shock value and it's good to get the more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network. It's disgusting. – The Utah senator	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[New York] issued a decree rationing COVID medicine on the basis of race, where two people otherwise medically identical, but one was Caucasian and one was not, the Caucasian would not be able to access the medical treatment, this is unthinkable in America. – Stephen Miller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our mission at the March for Life is to create a culture where abortion is unthinkable, our work is far from over. – Jeanne Mancini	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You don't expect to leave work and not come home -- it's unthinkable, it's unbearable, we need to take gun safety on film sets more seriously. – Jolynne Nieto	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Horse domestication was an absolute lightning strike in human history, leading to incredible, widespread, and lasting social transformations all across the ancient world, horses were an order of magnitude faster than many of the transport systems of prehistoric Eurasia, allowing people to travel, communicate, trade and raid across distances that would have previously been unthinkable. – William Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They're pretty draconian, quite authoritarian measures, which would be unthinkable outside a pandemic. – George Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The fact that somebody as sick as Mr. al-Qahtani poses some kind of security threat to United States is unthinkable. – Scott Roehm	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities,' it’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other. – Brad Sherman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s not news that Ilhan Omar would make outrageous and clearly false statements about America and Israel, what’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities.’ It’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other. – Brad Sherman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I am heartbroken and angered that a 7-year-old child was killed this afternoon on Chicago's West Side. This unthinkable act of violence has no place here. The epidemic of gun violence cutting our children's lives short can not go on. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is like him playing for the Buckeyes again, getting down to the two-minute warning, running into the locker room, getting a Michigan jersey and running back out, it's not that you turned your back or you did something that we didn't like. You did the unthinkable. – Shannon Burns	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This idea of our officers confronting a 13- and 12-year-old with a gun and the most unthinkable tragedy happens is one of our concerns, but our primary concern, I want to make this clear, is for the victim, and so these consequences, whether you’re young or old, have to be significant in order to discourage this behavior. – Police Superintendent David Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This time in which we feel like we are living in exile, a land made strange by a pandemic the likes of which no one living has ever seen. A land made strange by an economic turn down. A land made strange by a kind of political speech and rhetoric that continues to reach new lows. A land made strange when we witnessed the unthinkable as the very house of the people was attacked by those who are driven by the worst impulses, stirred up by demagogues, this strange time of exile, this strange time of spiritual exhaustion, this strange time in which the soul of our nation hangs in the balance. – Raphael WarnockThe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are just so thankful, so happy that women and babies can be supported in this state, we are really dedicated to moving into a next chapter, which will be where abortion becomes unthinkable because every woman has enough support and love. – Angie Thomas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You probably noticed Democrats spent a lot of time talking about how much they despise our President. But we heard very little about their actual policies, policies that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. – Ronna McDaniel	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If my parents were alive today, they both died young, it would have been incomprehensible to them -- incomprehensible -- that their son, coming from where we came from( would) become a United States senator or mayor, from Burlington, or candidate for president of the United States, it would have been unthinkable. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago

If we had not stepped up, the cost would have been unthinkable and unforgivable.

– Liz Truss

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I wouldn't discount a 100 basis point rate hike, it was only a few months ago when a 50 basis point hike seemed unthinkable.

– Marvin Loh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have this idea that the ruling elite are living very lavishly, while being very corrupt, and the ordinary person is in grave difficulty, to go from being perceived as heroes, to being chased out of your own home is unthinkable. It's a complete fall from grace.

– Ganeshan Wignaraja

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unthinkable : Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

It is not possible that this ends without costs for German society, it is unthinkable, i believe that we are ready to pay this price which is small enough compared to the sufferings in Ukraine.

– Robert Habeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility.

– Ukraine Signs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's unthinkable to me, it's almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that.

– Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's unthinkable to me, it's almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that, but, of course, they do it because if they get shock value and it's good to get the more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network. It's disgusting.

– The Utah senator

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[New York] issued a decree rationing COVID medicine on the basis of race, where two people otherwise medically identical, but one was Caucasian and one was not, the Caucasian would not be able to access the medical treatment, this is unthinkable in America.

– Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our mission at the March for Life is to create a culture where abortion is unthinkable, our work is far from over.

– Jeanne Mancini

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You don't expect to leave work and not come home -- it's unthinkable, it's unbearable, we need to take gun safety on film sets more seriously.

– Jolynne Nieto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Horse domestication was an absolute lightning strike in human history, leading to incredible, widespread, and lasting social transformations all across the ancient world, horses were an order of magnitude faster than many of the transport systems of prehistoric Eurasia, allowing people to travel, communicate, trade and raid across distances that would have previously been unthinkable.

– William Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They're pretty draconian, quite authoritarian measures, which would be unthinkable outside a pandemic.

– George Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fact that somebody as sick as Mr. al-Qahtani poses some kind of security threat to United States is unthinkable.

– Scott Roehm

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities,' it’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other.

– Brad Sherman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s not news that Ilhan Omar would make outrageous and clearly false statements about America and Israel, what’s newsworthy is that she admits Hamas is guilty of ‘unthinkable atrocities.’ It’s time for all of Israel’s detractors to condemn Hamas. And it’s time for all those of good will to reject any moral equivalency between the U.S. and Israel on one hand, and Hamas and the Taliban on the other.

– Brad Sherman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am heartbroken and angered that a 7-year-old child was killed this afternoon on Chicago's West Side. This unthinkable act of violence has no place here. The epidemic of gun violence cutting our children's lives short can not go on.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is like him playing for the Buckeyes again, getting down to the two-minute warning, running into the locker room, getting a Michigan jersey and running back out, it's not that you turned your back or you did something that we didn't like. You did the unthinkable.

– Shannon Burns

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This idea of our officers confronting a 13- and 12-year-old with a gun and the most unthinkable tragedy happens is one of our concerns, but our primary concern, I want to make this clear, is for the victim, and so these consequences, whether you’re young or old, have to be significant in order to discourage this behavior.

– Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This time in which we feel like we are living in exile, a land made strange by a pandemic the likes of which no one living has ever seen. A land made strange by an economic turn down. A land made strange by a kind of political speech and rhetoric that continues to reach new lows. A land made strange when we witnessed the unthinkable as the very house of the people was attacked by those who are driven by the worst impulses, stirred up by demagogues, this strange time of exile, this strange time of spiritual exhaustion, this strange time in which the soul of our nation hangs in the balance.

– Raphael WarnockThe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are just so thankful, so happy that women and babies can be supported in this state, we are really dedicated to moving into a next chapter, which will be where abortion becomes unthinkable because every woman has enough support and love.

– Angie Thomas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You probably noticed Democrats spent a lot of time talking about how much they despise our President. But we heard very little about their actual policies, policies that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

– Ronna McDaniel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If my parents were alive today, they both died young, it would have been incomprehensible to them -- incomprehensible -- that their son, coming from where we came from( would) become a United States senator or mayor, from Burlington, or candidate for president of the United States, it would have been unthinkable.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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