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Tag Name "Unattainable" (95)

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Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.
Sarah Dessen
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.
John Green
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We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
George Soros
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
Dorothea Lange
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Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets
J. R. D. Tata
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Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.
Kiera Cass
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There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
Elsa Barker
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Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.
Stephen Watson
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
Dorothea Lange
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It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.
Nikola Tesla
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Unattainable wishes are often pious. This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.
Stephanie Klein
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Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
Lisa Genova
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You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
Adamo Macri
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We're finite creatures, doomed to never get a fraction of what wisdom it would take to deal with infinity. My book has a lot to do with the unbelievable power and beauty of that almost unattainable freedom. Since none of us really gets to know it, we don't know what extremely powerful dangers might lurk in it.
Nick Tosches
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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
Vince Lombardi
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
Heraclitus
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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
Oswald Chambers
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Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
Russell L. Ackoff
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein
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We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
Michael Johnson
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