I Quotes
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“It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.”
“It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.”
Source: The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
Source: Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo
“It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.”
“It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.”
“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference.”
Source: The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
“It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.”
“It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.”
“It is impossible to determine precisely how many Victorians were dependent on the drug, but since millions used it on a daily basis, the number must have been considerable. The pallor of many women in the middle and upper classes, their frequent lack of appetite, their tendency to faint and to spend considerable time alone in dark rooms, the ornate patterns of overupholstered and overfurnished rooms, the persistently closed, thick draperies - these are evidence of a national dependency that the restraints of Victorian society discouraged anyone from discussing.”
“It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.”
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
“It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.”
Source: Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science
“It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.”
“It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.”
“It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.”
Source: Great House: A Novel
“It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.”
“It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.”
“It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.”
“It is impossible to do anything for anyone.”
“It is impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God’s will. If you can’t get it all done, it means you’re trying to do more than God intended for you to do.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life
“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.”
“It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself”
“It is impossible to enjoy divine protection without the word of God. You must be a word addict.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“It is impossible to erase my choices.”
Source: Allegiant Collector's Edition
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
Source: Freud Verbatim
“It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into their souls. It colors all their thoughts. It is wrought into the very fiber of their minds. It imbues them with its own spirit. It’s holy teachings become the principles of their lives, which rule their conduct and shape all their actions.”
“It is impossible to exaggerate how powerfully this object would affect any believer kneeling in front of it. The blood drawn by this worthless thorn will save immortal souls, and so nothing earthly can be too precious for it, neither the sapphire it stands on, nor the rock crystal that protects it, nor the ruby and pearls that frame it. This is a sermon in gold and jewels, an aid to contemplation and a source of the deepest comfort.”
Source: A History of the World in 100 Objects
“It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.”
“It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.”
“It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will requires consciousness, and our pervasive and deep-seated patterns of thought are unconscious; they are outside of our awareness and therefore outside of our control. While we remain in the system, we see the world through the eyes of carnism. And as long as we look through eyes other than our own, we will be living in accordance to a truth that is not of our own choosing. We must step outside the system to find our lost empathy and make choices that reflect what we truly feel and believe, rather than what we've been taught to feel and believe.”
Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
“It is impossible to exist without passion”
“It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.”
Source: Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity
“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
“It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.”
“It is impossible to express the experiences you have below the surface with words, when water gently caresses your face and body, the pulse decreases and your brain relaxes. You are immediately cut off from the stress and hustle of everyday life when you are below the surface – there are no noisy telephones or SMS messages, no inboxes full of mail, no electrical bills, or other trivialities of everyday life taking up time and energy. There is nothing connecting you to the surface but the same withheld breath that connects you to life. There is only you and a growing pressure on your chest that feels like a loving hug and the vibrations from the deep quiet tone of the sea. It is quite possible that this deep quiet tone is none other than the mantra Om, the sound of the universe, trickling life into every cell of your body.”
Source: Breatheology
“It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts”
“It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.”
“It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.”
“It is impossible to fill a broken vessel.”
“It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection.”
“It is impossible to find peace in the world if we can't create peace within ourselves.”
“It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.”
Source: Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life
“It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.”
“It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”