I Quotes
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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
“It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.”
“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”
“It is impossible to lose if you bet on God.”
“It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
Source: The Essays of Lord Bacon
“It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.”
“It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“It is impossible to love sleep and simultaneously be on the steering wheel of your dreams. One will have to give.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.”
“It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.”
“It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”
“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”
“It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.”
“It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.”
“It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.”
“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”
“It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.”
Source: The Concept of Nature
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
“It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.”
“It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'”
“It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.”
“It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.”
“It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.”
“It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Research shows that during the most important transitions of life—including those periods when youth are most likely to drift away from the Church—the greatest influence does not come from an interview with the bishop or some other leader but from the regular, warm, friendly, caring interaction with parents.”
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.”
“It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.”
Source: Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
“It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).”
“It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time”
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“It is impossible to pinpoint just how much stress comes to bear on detectives involved in an investigation of the scope of the missing girls' cases, but anyone who is close to homicide detectives sees the tension, the incredible pressure brought on by their responsibilities. If a corporation president carries the responsibility of bringing in or losing profits, homicide detectives - particularly in cases like the "Ted" disappearances - are truly dealing with life and death, working against time and almost impossible odds. It is a profession that brings with it the occupational hazards of ulcers, hypertension, coronary disease, and, on occasion, alcoholism. The public, the victims' families, the press, superiors - all demand immediate action.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”
“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.”
“It is impossible to pray accurately for someone and still have something against him. Even if you have something against him, if you pray for him, you will end up loving him.”
“It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.”
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
“It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith
“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.”
“It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.”
Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry
“It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.”
“It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.”
“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.”
“It is impossible to provide unlimited visitation and the essential qualities of an unconventional, non-urban experience simultaneously. Here too a compromise is called for: a willingness to trade quantity for quality of experience. There is nothing undemocratic or even unusual in such a trade. The notion that commitment to democratic principles compels the assumption of scarcity is one of the familiar misconceptions of our time. We need a willingness to value a certain kind of experience highly enough that we are prepared to have fewer opportunists for access in exchange for a different sort of experience when we do get access.”
Source: Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
“It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.”
“It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.”
“It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.”
“It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.”
“It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.”
Source: Collected Pruse