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Unattainable Quotes - Page 3

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin
Perfection, Unattainable, Strive

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Jodi Picoult
Unattainable
Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

Janette Rallison
Dream, Broken, Unattainable

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

Gilbert Highet
Demand, Unattainable, Sincerity
GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

Edith Wharton
Flower, Unattainable, Firsts
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Dan Deacon
Energy, Needs, Unattainable
Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

Charlaine Harris
Selfish, Unattainable, Want

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

Betty Smith
School, Other Worlds, Unattainable
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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