Impossible Quotes - Page 16

• 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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  The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

  Billie Holiday

  Motivational, Littles, Difficult

  Song: Crazy He Calls Me

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• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

  Marissa Mayer

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Should, Assault

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Taken, Risk

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Growth, Special

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• Make every day count.
  Make every hour count.
  Make every minute count.
  And don't stop until you have exercised your full potential, realizing your impossible dream and fulfilling your total destiny to become the person that you, and only you , are capable of being.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Destiny, Full Potential

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• In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Ethnicity, Order, Issues

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• It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Talking, People, Menace

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

  Barry Goldwater

  Gay, Government, People

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• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

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• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Ecology, Unnatural

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “Dramatic works”, p.462

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• A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Real, Years

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• Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

  Debby Ryan

  Able, Ifs, Capable

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• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

  Daniel Berrigan

  Inability, Favors, May

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

  Ted Chiang

  Book, Exercise, Choices

  Ted Chiang (2010). “Stories of Your Life and Others”, p.137, Knopf

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• The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Believe, Adventure

  "Home Education".

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• It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Air, People, Perfect

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• The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.169, SUNY Press

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• So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.

  Kathryn Budig

  Unique, Individuality, Special

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• It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Natural

  Ezekiel Hopkins (1809). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins...now First Collected”, p.410

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• Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Boundaries, Abstract, Ends

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• Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Emotional, Peaceful, Mind

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.22, Random House

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