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Impossible Quotes by George Orwell
- To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,…
- The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to…
- The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
- I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a…
- Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
- How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to…
- It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It…
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
- 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…
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- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever… — David Attenborough
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not… — Richard Bach
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- It is impossible to love and to be wise. — Francis Bacon
- It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer