Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2791 authors
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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it…
— Nicole Krauss
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do…
— Nhat Hanh
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Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert,…
— Penelope Trunk
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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of…
— Damon Albarn
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It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The…
— Henry M. Morris
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The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it…
— Henry M. Morris
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The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
— Guglielmo Marconi
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If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.
— Henry Ford
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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say…
— Leslie Stephen
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
— Christopher Dawson
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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
— Gregory Bateson
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities…
— Bertrand Russell
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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible…
— Hans Kramers
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Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Believe the impossible is possible
— Glen Keane
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It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!
— Oscar Pistorius
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The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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