Impossible Quotes - Page 35

• You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.

  Don King

  Believe, Unbelievable

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• It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Success, Succeed, Failing

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• It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just man. Not even Western man either, as it happened, but our sworn enemy in the East, who went into the streets, faced the bullets and the batons and said: we've had enough. It was their emperor, not ours, who had the nerve to mount the rostrum and declare he had no clothes. And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day.

  John le Carre

  War, Army, Technology

  "The Secret Pilgrim". Book by John le Carré, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

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• This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Jobs, Men

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• It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Glasses, Jewels, Practice

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• By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

  John Ashcroft

  Wall, Law, Community

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• Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

  Stefan Zweig

  Disappointment, Writing, German Language

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• Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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• Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Soul, Way, Belief

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• You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Thinking, May

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Belief

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.271, Hay House, Inc

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• Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Growth, Progress

  Wayne W. Dyer (1978). “Pulling Your Own Strings”

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• The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

  Plato

  Love, Needs, Hunger And Thirst

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• Your demons are always with you, Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

  James Dashner

  Life, Voice, Might

  James Dashner (2013). “Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds”, p.230, Random House

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• Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

  Paracelsus

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Mother, Attitude

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• Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Perfect, Tools

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• It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Would Be, Way, Lord

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• I know that you can do the impossible.

  Terry Fox

  Knows, Can Do

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• If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.

  Buck Brannaman

  Mistake, Simple, Rays

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• Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

  Moshe Safdie

  Beauty, Money, Believe

  "Moshe Safdie: Global Citizen". worldarchitecture.org. November 21, 2013.

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• Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Littles, Matter

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• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  Catherine Crowe

  Age, Unfaithful, Great Men

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205

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