I Quotes
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“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.”
“It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.”
“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”
Source: 1984
“It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.”
“It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.”
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
“It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.”
“It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.”
“It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.”
Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year
“It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.”
“It is impossible to get result without action.”
“It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country”
“It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.”
“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.”
Source: Breaking Through to the Next Level
“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear
“It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor.”
“It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.”
Source: The Theory of Money and Credit
“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.”
Source: The Complete Fly Fisherman
“It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.”
“It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.”
“It is impossible to have a prayer without power.”
“It is impossible to have an adult conversation with people who want to prove themselves unless it is a job interview.”
“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”
“It is impossible to have both the disease and life. The people who laugh at your dreams and want to stop you from achieving your goals are diseases. You either cut them off from your life or you will have no life. There is no joy in being surrounded by contaminated souls in hell. People make choices but this planet does not offer you more than two - life and death. Personally, I'd rather have a whole empty beach on a beautiful Greek island for myself than all the friends who laughed at my dreams with me.”
“It is impossible to have progress without conscience”
“It is impossible to hide any more of his (Turkmenbashy) pure hypocrisy, the absence of elementary norms of political and diplomatic behavior, the insidiousness and cruelty in relation to the people and the spreading of an atmosphere of fear.”
“It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.”
“It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.”
“It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!”
Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.”
“It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
“It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.”
“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
Source: Minority Report
“It is impossible to imagine you gone,
dear one, your laugh lost to some silence I can’t breach,
from which you will not return.”
“It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.”
“It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.”
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
Source: The Law
“It is impossible to keep spiritual peace if we do not take care of the mind, that is if we do not drive out thoughts that are displeasing to God and, on the contrary, keep thoughts which are pleasing to God. It is necessary to look into the heart with mind and see what is done there. Is it peaceful or not? If not, then find out in what you have sinned.”
“It is impossible to know how the choices we make will change the course of our future, how a small break from a relationship might seal our fate, or how an inconsequential choice over something we deem temporary could become permanent.”
Source: A Beautiful Kind of Love
“It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.”
“It is impossible to learn what we think we already know.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.”
“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.”
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
“It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.”
Source: The Secret of Happiness
“It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.”
Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct
“It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.”