Impossible Quotes - Page 10

• Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

  Tony Blair

  Art, Giving, May

  "Sober speech from a man still yearning for power" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2007.

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• The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.

  James Madison

  Real, Reflection, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.173, Cambridge University Press

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• Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cheer, Book, Heart

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• There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.

  Jean Monnet

  Real, Europe, Prosperity

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• It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

  Thom Yorke

  Sun, Being Me, Horror

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• It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Play, Age, Has Beens

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.592, Wordsworth Editions

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• You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political.

  Vaclav Havel

  Dream, Independent, People

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Revenge, Mean

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• Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

  Erica Jong

  Impossible Situations, Tools, Serious

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• One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Average

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.22, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Reflection

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• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Anomalies, Way

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

  Don DeLillo

  Barns, White Noise

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

  Epicurus

  Men, Able, He Man

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Important, Matter

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• All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivation, Mean, Winning

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Giving Up, Commitment

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• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

  Debi Thomas

  Dream, Stupid, Goal

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• You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Optimistic, Boys

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• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Dad, Father, Phones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

  Emily Blunt

  Inspirational, Dance, Home

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• Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Sometimes, Internet

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 29, 2012

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