Impossible Quotes - Page 31

• There are days we live
  as if death were nowhere
  in the background; from joy
  to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
  from blossom to blossom to
  impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

  Li-Young Lee

  Sweet, Wings, Joy

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation — would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.

  Wendy Kopp

  School, Community, Generations

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• You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
  Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

  Alex Flinn

  Children, Mean, Ideas

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• It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

  Jackson Pearce

  Broken, Mind, Pieces

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• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  Eli Pariser

  Shoes, People, Important

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• It's impossible to do something cool without outraging someone. In fact, I usually judge how cool I'm being by how many angry people are following me with signs.

  Seanbaby

  People, Judging, Facts

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• It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Artist, Creative, Injustice

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• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  Isaac Hanson

  Cities, Lovely, World

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• Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Couple, Moving, Two

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• Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Lying, Challenges, Magic

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• Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Two, Effort, One Thing

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

  Andy Stanley

  Coaching, May, Input

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wilderness, Creation, Resources

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

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• Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

  Eve Ensler

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Reality, People

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Sheep, Doors

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• So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Country, Military, Law

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• 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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• 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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• 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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