Impossible Quotes - Page 23

• Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that

  Donald A. Norman

  Writing, Exercise, Ties

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• Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Long, Camels, Rebel

  FaceBook post by Alaa Al Aswany from Nov 26, 2012

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• Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Thinking, Names, People

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• I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

  David Bromberg

  Guitar, Wanted, Persons

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• The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

  RuPaul

  Taken, Men, Shadow

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• But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

  Radwa Ashour

  Secret, Doe, Humankind

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• My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Years, Suffering

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• Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Want, Concerts

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• The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Dictionary, Has Beens

  "The philosophy" by Ingvar Kamprad, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

  Adam Kokesh

  4th Of July, Government, Years

  Adam Kokesh Calls For 'New American Revolution' by Paul Joseph Watson, www.infowars.com. May 24, 2013.

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• You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Twilight

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• It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with.

  Peter Biskind

  Falling In Love, Stars, Animal

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

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• As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Girl, Believe, Air

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• No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Men, Impossible Things

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• Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Fiber, Steps, Holding On

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• Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you’ll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just “us and “them”, and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

  David Moody

  Fighting, Race, Differences

  David Moody (2010). “Hater”, p.275, Macmillan

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• You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

  Victoria Moran

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.

  Gordon Dahlquist

  War, Vision, Shadow

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• Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Mind, Limits, Causes

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• Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

  Murray Leinster

  Facts, Stills, Ifs

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 9, 1964.

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• It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Thanks, Feels

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.203, Zondervan

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• There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Christian, Pain, Believe

  Elizabeth Goudge (1942). “The Castle on the Hill”

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• The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.

  Paul Lemoine

  Believe, Theory Of Evolution, People

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• It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Night, Mind, Trying

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• You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Journey, Stories

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 01, 2014

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