Impossibility Quotes - Page 9

• From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Europe, Cities

  Edmund Wilson (1966). “Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964”, Vintage

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• It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

  David Souter

  Political, Impossible, Process

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• It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.

  Clive Davis

  Song, Memorable, Artist

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• The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Energy, Novelists, Culture

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Frustration, Self

  "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety". Book by Alan Watts, 1951.

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• The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.

  Madeleine Albright

  Party, Independent, President

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• When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Yield, Lays

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.215, Destiny Image Publishers

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• There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Men, Mind

  Ellen G. White (2003). “Faith and Works”, p.19, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

  Adam Gopnik

  Accomplishment, Adults, Relief

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Differences, Elements

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• In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Lazarus, Return, Impossible

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.25, Regnery Publishing

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• Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

  Norman Angell

  Desire, Impossible, Making Peace

  Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”

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• A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

  Satoshi Kanazawa

  Multicultural Society, Logical, Multicultural

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• We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.

  Isobel Miller Kuhn

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

  Ray Comfort

  Believe, Mean, Mind

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• I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.

  DMX

  Victory, Midst, Breakthrough

  Song: The Prayer V, Album: Grand Champ

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• Some things are impossible.

  Alex Van Halen

  Impossible

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• A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

  Henri Poincare

  Independent, Science, Reality

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• When you do your best, there is no impossibility.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Fighter

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• You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Children, Law Of Attraction, World

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• This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Attitude, Yesterday, World

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• I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

  Sinclair Lewis

  Inspiration, Impossible, Week

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

  Ernest Becker

  Religious, Real, Men

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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