I Quotes
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“It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.”
“It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.”
“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”
“It is impossible for a thief to steal from an empty house.”
“It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.”
“It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”
“It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching the major TV networks or contemporary videos to have a Christian mind. This is always true of all Christians in every situation! A Biblical mental program cannot coexist with worldly programming.”
“It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.”
Source: From Eden to Babylon: The Social and Political Essays of Andrew Nelson Lytle
“it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.”
“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
“It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.”
Source: The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...
“It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel is one window into the experience, and the game is another. They complement each other perfectly.”
“It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.”
Source: Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations
“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”
“It Is Impossible For Anyone To Live Independently Of The Kingdom Of God And Be Truly Happy”
“It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, oÂne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.”
“It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;
“It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.”
Source: The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90
“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”
“It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.”
“It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.”
Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha
“It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.”
Source: The voyage out
“It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.”
Source: Busman's Honeymoon
“It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.”
Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations
“It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.”
“It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.”
“It is impossible for me to be in time, with all its distractions and demands, and think, listen, and write coherently. When I say I need to find time to write, I really mean I need to find nevertime.”
Source: Into the Deep
“It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.”
“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.”
“It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?”
Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India
“It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.”
“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins...now First Collected
“It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.”
“It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.”
Source: History of Women Suffrage
“It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.”
“It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.”
“It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day be restored to their historic national home and there enter on a new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity.”
“It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.”
“It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.”
“It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow.”
Source: The Rudeness of Soul
“It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“It is impossible for the Bible to be responsible for incredible wisdom without a highly sensible and invisible backing, only the gullible will believe otherwise.”
“It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.”
Source: Conferences
“It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.”
“It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top”
“It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.”
Source: The Price of Loyalty