Impossible Quotes - Page 28

• Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

  Rachel Vincent

  Firsts, Settling, Wanted

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.45, MIRA

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• The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Niqab, Veils, Body

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• It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

  Sofia Kovalevskaya

  Math, Soul, Poet

  "Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood" by Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1895.

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• There’s just one place to live – the impossible.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Places To Live, Just One

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• Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

  Mike Brown

  Joy, Findings

  Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.72, Spiegel & Grau

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• When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

  Rod Parsley

  Ghost, Holy Spirit, Filled

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• For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Intuition, Mind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10012, Delphi Classics

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• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  Arthur Eddington

  Math, Perfect, Physics

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

  Anderson Silva

  Art, Perfection, Everyday

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• Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Confidence, Mountain, Missionary

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

  Charles Studd

  Missionary, Want, Christ

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Wall, Sea

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• Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Attitude, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

  Ambrose

  Saint, Difficult, Contrary

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• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mistake, Impossible Things, Understanding

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• So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, Drug, Serious

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Night, Pygmalion

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• It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.414, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.

  Philip E. Agre

  Philosophy, Decision, Literature

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• Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

  Michael N. Castle

  Sacrifice, Trying, Debt

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Impossible Situations, Omnipotence

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Insulting

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

  Steven Furtick

  Christian, Believe, Sleep

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.7, Multnomah

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• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

  Warren E. Burger

  Justice, Guilt, Criminals

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• If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

  Nathan Winograd

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

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