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So it`s conceivable I`ll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that`s possible.

- Sarah Polley

He (Hernandez) has been approached in every conceivable manner to cooperate with the government and his position has always been, `I didn`t know what they (the Cuban military) were going to do. His job was to monitor Brothers to the Rescue to find out when they were going to fly and pass that along, but he never knew what they were going to do. He never had any indication that they were going to shoot them down.

- Paul McKenna

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

- Alex Haley

On the other hand, you look around this magnificent part of the Pentagon that has been reconstructed by the renovation folks, and it has every conceivable safety built in.

- Peter Murphy

People think that because a novel`s invented, it isn`t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

- Anthony Powell

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

- John Adams

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

- Madalyn Murray-O'Hair

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

- Abram Sacher

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

- Alan Feduccia

America`s highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

- Alan K. Simpson

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

- Alison Levine

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

- Alison Levine

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

- Allan Zaremberg

They have a strategy that targets every conceivable private opportunity in the world. What they`re doing has never been done before on this scale. They are the pioneers.

- Anthony Sims

We think it conceivable that the journals in some disciplines might suffer. Why would you pay to subscribe to a journal if the papers appear free of charge?

- Barb Cox
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

- John Henry Newman

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

- Joseph Wood Krutch