Impossibility Quotes - Page 13

• My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

  Andrew Marvell

  Love, Despair, Strange

  'The Definition of Love' (1681)

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• God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Struggle, Forgive Me, Feelings

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.760, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Hardship, Wonderful

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.33, Penguin

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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  Walter Scott

  Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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• What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

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• Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

  Sophocles

  Firsts, Impossible, Meek

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• If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

  John Cage

  Challenges, Possibility, Shows

  John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

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• I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Ego

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  There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Impossible, Limitation, Unbelief

  Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.78, Destiny Image Publishers

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• By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Grace, Goes On, Want

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.470, Whitaker House

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• That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

  Rollo May

  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

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• Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

  George Soros

  Years, Risk, Management

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• The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Humble, Mean

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

  Robin Wasserman

  Life, Lying, Pages

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.325, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Father, Thinking

  "If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer".

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• Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly.

  Emil Brunner

  Men, Mercy Of God, Guilt

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• You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Science, Technology

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Horse, Children

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• An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Mean, Men, Mind

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• Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Men, Long

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.19

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• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Song, Attitude, War

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Fall, Clothes

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Law, Tolerance

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Spiritual, Term, Inconsistency

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• I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

  Tim Cahill

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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