Unattainable Quotes - Page 2

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

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.

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Attain the unattainable.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

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.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.