I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.”
Source: Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty
“It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.”
“It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.”
Source: The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
“It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.”
“It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.”
Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”
“It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?”
“It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.”
“It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.”
Source: Cross Creek
“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.”
“It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.”
Source: Why is a Dress?: Who? What? When? Where?
“It is impossible to be consumed by a single passion without knowing its nature, no matter what rationalizations one constructs to hide it from oneself.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“It is impossible to be famous only on the Internet.”
“It is impossible to be far from truth which lives inside your heart.”
“It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.”
Source: Parallel Universes of Self
“It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.”
“It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.”
“It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.”
“It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.”
Source: Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar
“It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.”
“It is impossible to be ‘turned on’ without submission.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.”
Source: In Defense of Women
“It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.”
“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.”
“It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.”
“It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.”
“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
“It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.”
“It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.”
“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.”
Source: Country Girl
“It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.”
Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
“It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!”
“It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us!”
“It is impossible to change lives and remain the same.”
“It is impossible to climb up the growth ladder without a little effort”
“It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.”
“It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.”
“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”
“It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.”
Source: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”
“It is impossible to conceive of many without one.”
Source: Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias
“It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.”
“It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer”
Source: Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers
“It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual ‘magic’ causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.”