Impossibility Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

  Edith Cavell

  Doors, Space, Refugee

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• If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Circles

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• There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

  David Buss

  Agents, Influence, Economics

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• It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Sky

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• It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Events, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

  Christopher Columbus

  Giving, Victory, Way

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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

  John Keats

  Love, Poet, Metaphysical

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Atheism, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.223, Bertrand Russell

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• What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Paradox, Possibility, Eternal

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Two, Honest

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• A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Play, Laughing

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• The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Ideas, Nomenclature

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, David M. Knight (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry”, p.14, Taylor & Francis

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• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Possible And Impossible, Littles, Achieving The Impossible

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Hair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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• Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Culture

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Lying, Simple

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.368, Wordsworth Editions

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• Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

  Vivian Mercier

  Play, Waiting, Firsts

  "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

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• Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

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  Ram Dass

  Wise, Spiritual, Order

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• A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

  Nils Heribert-Nilsson

  Ideas, Evolution, Inspection

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• Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Perfection

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• If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

  George Washington

  Attitude, War, Government

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Suffering

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• Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Faith, Christian, Laughing

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2014

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