"Out of the question" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... commence by getting on to a big black blotch, and, after wandering about for half an hour, we might perhaps then begin to find out that we were looking at the little letter "e," but anything like reading would be quite out of the question. We may, therefore, with our limited aperture of sight, be thankful that our eyes have the imperfection of not appreciating parallel rays. But we will now consider how this imperfection ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein
... hazarded, where every thing is at stake. My fears were not for myself; and, while my arms were free, could I have come upon them thus suddenly, success was far from improbable. Vice is always cowardly; and, difference of weapons out of the question, three to ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... that the development of industry and commerce had brought about such an interdependence of peoples that war was henceforth out of the question—at least upon a vast scale. But it is now clear that commerce also creates jealousies and rivalries and suspicions which are potent for war. We were told that nations could not long finance a war under modern conditions; economists had demonstrated that to the satisfaction ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... with more money and help me off. If you get out of that room before six, I could take the earlier train. If not, then the 8.15. I will wait for you in the ladies' waiting-room where the couches are. If you think my going suddenly this way is out of the question, then I'll simply turn around and come back with you to the house here, and grin and bear the situation somehow. I'll have to. So meet me anyhow. Don't tell any one where I am. Just stroll out and we'll pretend we've been to ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... course," I pursued, "would be out of the question: and, indeed, as I saw your first interview with him, I am aware that he appeared to ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
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