Impossibility Quotes - Page 6

• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Evil, Assumption

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• I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reason, Sita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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• Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Latin, America, Tragedy

  Source: deadline.com

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• In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

  Aristotle

  Wish, May, Assuming

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Reality

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• I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

  Ben Lerner

  Reality, Order, Attention

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.

  Nick Bollettieri

  Moving, Doe, Balls

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  Army, Order, Enemy

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, Expression, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.32, Routledge

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• A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.

  Tim O'Brien

  Life, Running, Thinking

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.

  Martha Beck

  Home, Waiting, Down And

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• Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Opposites, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Lying, Cities

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.698, Best Books on

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• If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

  Tom Arnold

  Stars, Children, Science

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• I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Names, Promise

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Twilight Book

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• Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

  Craig Clevenger

  Children, Regret, Newborn Child

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• When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

  Marguerite Duras

  Differences, Reaching, Marvelous

  Marguerite Duras (2015). “The Malady of Death”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Children, Taken, Son

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• It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Bill Johnson (2013). “When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

  George MacDonald

  Mind, Speech, Fit

  George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.13, Booklassic

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• I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

  Keith Jarrett

  Believe, Artist, Tasks

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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