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Source: On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man by Thomas Chalmers

“Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.”

Giving Should Mind Humans Made Ideas Facts Past Universe Impossible Conclusion Assumption Human Mind Stable Warrants Old Ideas

Author:Edith Hamilton

“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.”

Needs Believe Humans Seems Impossible Human Nature

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

Should Littles Felt Sides Love Is Rooms Grief Impossible Duty Conscience Should Have Calm Pity Injury Resentment Both Sides Bruised

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.”

Should Years Different Facts Eye My Own History Impossible Deductions Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.”

Ifs Men World Can Do Moral Too Much Impossible Thorough

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.”

Ifs Next Impossible Bored Bores

Book:The Enchanted April

Source: The Enchanted April

“Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.”

Men Has Beens Two Christianity Impossible Morality Salvation Unions Tendencies Curse Opposition Superstitions Adequate

Author:Mark Hopkins

“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.”

Writing Reality Left Language Grows Impossible Bones Sentences Mistrust Skeletons Hardness One Sentence

Book:No time like the present

Source: No time like the present

“Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.”

Happens Impossible Revolution Inevitable

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“I have never believed in the impossible.”

Impossible

Author:Faye Wattleton

“Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.”

Practice Impossible Theory Delightful Maxims Axioms

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.”

Wells May Made War Might Evil Impossible Respecting Others

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.”

War Government Impossible Share Income Decent Pie Tug Of War

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.”

Heaven Impossible Enjoyment Lively Another Life

Author:Francis Atterbury

“We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Impossible Communication Industry Perfection Advertising Imperfect Tides Inhuman

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“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.”

Men Children Matter Reason Purpose Justice Chance Impossible Betray Another Man

Author:Margaret Halsey

“Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.”

Reality Form Suffering Results Impossible Acceptance Oneself Contact Flight Denial Remove

Book:Suffering

Source: Suffering

“The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.”

“you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.”

Thinking Want Whole Wanted Desire Wish Impossible Died Seventeen

Author:Charlotte Bingham

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.”

Ifs Way Certain Religion Accepting Moral Impossible Twenties Behave Breakfast Ethical Aesthetic Transformed Propositions Alchemy

Author:Karen Armstrong

“If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down the track of life thinking that it's impossible to break life's records, those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Ends Running Talking Opinion Break Records Impossible Feet Track Predictions Sinking

Author:Carl Lewis

“I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.”

Thinking Mind Humans Ends Death Impossible Finals Human Mind Life Death Irrevocable

Book:The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.”

Needs Humans Religion Enemy Impossible Worst Inevitable Creeds Indifferent Worst Enemy Guise Human Needs Revulsion

Author:Georgia Harkness

“You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.”

Friendship Impossible Friendly

Book:Tales from Moominvalley

Source: Tales from Moominvalley

“An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.”

Self Body Impossible Possibility

Book:On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3

Source: On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3

“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.”

“[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.”

Known Impossible Middle Golf Humble Middle Aged Beginners

Author:Ethel Smyth

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