Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2623 authors
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I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the…
— John Green
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Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very…
— Alexandre Dumas
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If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe…
— James A. Baldwin
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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most…
— Nicole Krauss
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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.
— Elizabeth Wein
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
— Charles Dickens
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it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe…
— Deepak Chopra
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In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed,…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or…
— Mark Strand
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Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
— George Orwell
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We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will…
— Cory Doctorow
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
— Jane Austen
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…
— Jane Austen
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How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!
— Elizabeth George Speare
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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
— Howard Zinn
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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
— Og Mandino
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
— Patrick Ness
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