Impossible Quotes - Page 9

• The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Law, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.238, Courier Corporation

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• While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Love, Sweet, Light

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• The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Saint, Difficulty, Crushed

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.59, Discovery House

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• Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Ignorance, Two

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• [I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

  William Penn

  Men, People, Religion

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• There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

  Eli Broad

  Wisdom, Money, Real

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• Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forever, Unions, Action

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

  George Washington

  Vices, Human Nature, Virtue

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Association, Disgusted, Lowest

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.22

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• Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Love, Dog, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.

  Aberjhani

  Love, War, Exercise

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

  Daniel Ek

  Inspiring, Entrepreneur, Conviction

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• The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.

  Thomas McKean

  Eye, Men, Liberty

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• It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

  Henry Adams

  Intelligence, Humans, Human Intelligence

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson (1989). “1903-1916”

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• I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Love, Life, Family

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• In two words, impossible.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

  Jeremy Renner

  Song, Expression, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

  James Franco

  Sometimes, Painful, Oneself

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Trying, Stop Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

  Sean Connery

  Improbable, Nothing Is Impossible

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• The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

  Diane Kruger

  Perfection, Doubt, Trying

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• Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Race, Objectivity

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• She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.

  Bunny Yeager

  Eye, Perfect, Body

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• There’s a window of opportunity with every girl and once that passes it becomes impossible to bang.

  Roosh V

  Girl, Opportunity, Bangs

  "30 Bangs: The Shaping Of One Man's Game From Patient Mouse To Rabid Wolf". Book by Roosh V, March 7, 2012.

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• The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

  James Madison

  Diversity, Miracle, Degrees

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.27, University of Virginia Press

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