I Quotes
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“It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.”
Source: Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear
“It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One
“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.”
“It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.”
“It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.”
Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
“It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of imposters when we know that we are as the angels. We are loved beyond comprehension. So, we must claim our rightful inheritance and live with the confidence of protection.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of imposters when we know that we are as the angels. We are loved beyond comprehension. We must claim our rightful inheritance and live with the confidence of protection.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.”
Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.”
Source: Secrets of Chess Training
“It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.”
“It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?”
“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.”
“It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.”
Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration
“It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.”
“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
“It is not possible to eliminate suffering by eliminating pain. Human existence contains inevitable challenges. People we love will be injured, and people close to us will die—indeed, we are aware from an early age that in time we all will die. We will also be sick. Functions will diminish. Friends and lovers will betray us. Pain is unavoidable, and (owing to our symbolic inclinations) we readily remember this pain and can bring it into consciousness at any given moment. This progression means that human beings consciously expose themselves to inordinate amounts of pain—despite our considerable abilities to control its sources in the external environment. Even so, great pain is not in itself a sufficient cause for true human suffering. For that to occur, symbolic behavior needs to be taken a bit further.”
Source: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change
“It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.”
“It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it. But I lived And I am happy about that.”
“It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.”
“It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 5. Of mountain beauty
“It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!”
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”
Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...
“It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.”
“It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“It is not possible to have sex equality for all in a society when one's sex is the one that is for sale - a commodity or service - and the other sex is the consumer, and almost always the purveyor (pimp); consumers have rights over and above the goods and services that they buy. Legalising prostitution isn't the answer either.”
Source: Defending Women's Spaces
“It is not possible to heal people and collect money. That gift is not for sale. When it is time to heal, it is time to give what God has given us.”
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“It is not possible to know what you need to learn.”
“It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.”
“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”
“It is not possible to love and be wise.”
Source: To Love and Be Wise
“It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.”
“It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.”
Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
“It is not possible to make a mistake.”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.”
Source: The Timeless Way of Building
“It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.”
“It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split - conforming outwardly to one reality, while trying to maintain inwardly the value it denies.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses with evidence of non-physical reality. It cannot be done. The five senses; sight,hearing, taste and smell together form a single sensory system whose object of detection is physical reality. This cannot detect non-physical reality. Humankind is beginning to be able to access data the 5 senses cannot provide.”
“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”
“It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.”
“It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.”
Source: Pedagogy of Indignation