Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2791 authors
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I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this…
— Terrance Hayes
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Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
— George Santayana
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever…
— Garet Garrett
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Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible…
— Ted Chiang
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because…
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it…
— Charlotte Mason
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It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air…
— Jack LaLanne
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The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t…
— Kathryn Budig
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It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.
— Ezekiel Hopkins
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When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is…
— T.D. Jakes
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Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.
— Paul Rogat Loeb
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Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest…
— Paul Rogat Loeb
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire,…
— Alex Kozinski
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I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution.…
— Colin Blakemore
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If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it,
— Nicholas Winton
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Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from…
— Mary Alice
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It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the…
— J. Edwin Orr
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It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
— Sheikh Hasina
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