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“Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.”

Ifs Whole Sides Impossible India Unity

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.”

Ifs Today Nations My Own Class Impossible Members Tasks India Slavery Slave

Book:Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

“Nonviolence is impossible without humility.”

Impossible Humility Nonviolence

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.”

Long Clear Impossible Victory Ill Satyagraha Ill Will

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.”

Way Suffering Violence Impossible Harm Snakes

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.”

Stills Soul Impossible Bravery Remains Brave Battlefields

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.”

Impossible Offers Resistance Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.”

Peace Impossible Conditions Performances Combination Fulfillment Chemicals Attainment

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.”

Impossible Risk Kings Stations

Book:The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance

Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance

“If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.”

Ifs Humor Would Be Funny Impossible Cold Drink Ice

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.”

Book Next Impossible Written Couple Thousand Library Written Word

Author:Tim Gunn

“The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That's an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes. I try to be strong about it and assure myself that only my close friends and family can really pass judgement on me personally, but it's impossible to not let it get to you.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Sometimes Strong Struggle Impossible Danger Judgement Family And Friends Ongoing Get Real Close Friends Trippy

Author:Bo Burnham

“Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.”

Shows Fun Wish Hours Impossible Six Excited Instance Schedules

Author:Jack Johnson

“It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.”

Humor Funny Impossible Willing

Author:John Fletcher

“As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.”

Believe Ideas Light Happens Dies Simple Impossible Concepts Things Happen Bulbs Light Bulb Laughable

Author:Stephen King

“Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt is created, the child will never be free of it. Unless he is very intelligent it will be impossible for him to get rid of it; something of it will remain around him like a hangover.”

Children Humanity Parent Sin Impossible Intelligent Guilt Criminals Hangover

Author:Rajneesh

“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.”

Two Lasts House Sides Hours Attention Gone Pieces Impossible Streets Car Painting Shops Cracks Abandoned New Orleans Rotting Mattresses

Author:Banksy

“I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.”

Thinking Results Impossible Lows Financial My Favorite Budgets Expensive Territory Engineers Reverse Irresponsible Favorites Things Financial Results

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.”

Want Children Parent Loses Impossible Childhood Innocence Purity Bottles Purity And Innocence

Author:Pete Docter

“We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.”

Difficult Talking Impossible Century Planets Degrees Raised Global Warming Carbon Temperature Pipeline

Author:Bill McKibben

“Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.”

Knows Feels Trying Sometimes Done Turns Causes Audience Know How Impossible Stage Drained Trying Everything

Author:Charlyne Yi

“There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”

Way Beautiful Song Sound Nice Impossible Subjects Boring Lovely Contradiction Translate Jane Very Nice

Author:Agnes Varda

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four flights of stairs at 5 am to practice my turns in front of the candle light when others are asleep. I felt like that I had climbed many tall mountains and made so many impossible dreams come true through sheer determination, perseverance, passion, self conviction and belief.”

“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.”

“One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.”

People Knows Done Impossible Performances Publishing Work Done

Author:John Kinsella

“On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.”

Thinking Knows Want I Can Hard Levels Impossible Picks Cameras Practicals Wander

Author:Bill Henson

“The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.”

Should Goal Teach Impossible Minutes Miles Runners

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.”

Should Goal Impossible Brave Dare

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.”

Knows Feels Heart Persons Ideas Whole Together Brain Principles Impossible Conditions Figures Currents Being True Dilemma Heart And Brain

Author:Dean Spade

“Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.”

Seems Today Reading Given Black Leader Impossible Tasks Police Warfare Panthers Black Panther

Author:Angela Davis

“I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.”

Looks Littles Remember Used Certain Turns Bits Difficult Impossible Week Strange Little Bit Shadow Operations Silver Print Buttons Brighter Printing Printer Photoshop

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“In meditation, it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to become devoid of all mental thoughts, so what we want to do is fill the mind with those thoughts that induce positive feelings of peace, relaxation or happiness.”

People Ifs Want Mind Feelings Difficult Meditation Impossible Relaxation Positive Feelings

Author:Tim McCarthy

“For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.”

Thinking Way Trying Ideas Perfect Impossible Subjects Poet Driven Poetry Is Way Of Thinking

Author:James Arthur

“They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.”

“Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.”

Easy Impossible Achieve This Life

Author:James May

“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.”

“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.”

Ifs Needs Trying Years Running Today Values Courses Growth Business Company Impossible Hundred Dollars Add

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.”

Thinking Way Needs Impossible Shapes Waste Standards Including Size Magazines Measuring Physical Beauty

Author:Kate Grenville

“I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.”

Firsts Philosophy Wanted School Father Bits Impossible Philosopher Lawyer Professors Graduates Bugs Graduate School

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.”

Thinking Wells Two Book Jobs Film Artist Records Impossible Directors Mountain Comic Teenager Climbs Comic Book Film Directors Illustrators Two Jobs

Author:Dave McKean

“I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.”

People Ifs Littles Said Whole Use Today Bits Interesting Impossible Groups Minutes Exercise Little Bit Musician Studios Broke Session Restriction Nameless

Author:Brian Eno

“In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.”

Government America Past President Results Democracy Impossible Military Guarantees Latin Dictatorship Dictator Latin America Coups Honduras

Author:Evo Morales

“We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.”

Mind Soul Facts Body Would Be Impossible Magic Gains Mysticism

Author:Franz Bardon

“As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Able Christian Religious Lord Impossible Teaching Goodness Orthodox Honey Sweetness Penetrate Goodness Of God

Author:Saint Basil

“As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.”

Inspirational Christian Heaven Religious Walks Impossible Feet Wings Kingdoms Fulfillment Orthodox Commandments Kingdom Of Heaven

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

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Author:Audrey Hepburn

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Looks Heart Done Care Christian Spiritual Religious Impossible Take Care Contrary Peaceful Orthodox Spiritual Peace

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Humans Christian Desire Religious Virtue Impossible Doors Produce Humility Pride Sorrow Draws Orthodox Righteousness Affliction

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.”

Knows War Remember Enemy Impossible Advantage Intention Blow Foolish Surrender Ignorant Operations Initiative Retreat Attacking Landing Ignoble Ruthlessness

Author:George S. Patton