Best impossible & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.”

Way Said Ends Hard Joy Individual Path Teacher Impossible Depends Garden Harmony Curiosity Pursue Educate Elsewhere Bent Express Yourself Pilgrim

Author:Will Durant

“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.”

Giving May Ends Impossible Habit Giving Up Projects Gains Determination

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.”

World Littles Art Ends Felt Impossible Produce Despair Desperation Incidents Verge

Book:Heiligenstädter Testament

Source: Heiligenstädter Testament

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”

Ifs Made Ends Accepting Impossible Overcoming Contradiction Impossibility

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.”

People Want Ends Simple Impossible Middle East Occupation Middle East Sovereignty Simple Things Prospects Moscow

Author:Khaled Mashal

“We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing. It is impossible to build up the country in a state of permanent warfare. But peace for us is a mean, and not an end. The end is the fulfillment of Zionism in its maximum scope. Only for this reason do we need peace, and do we need an agreement.”

Needs Mean Ends Country States Reason Order Courses Impossible Essentials Regard Secure Permanent Fulfillment Agreement Palestinian Warfare Scope Maximum Zionism

Author:David

“I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.”

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.”

Ends Jobs America Can Do Careers Player Impossible Team Eight Loyal Proven

Author:Walter Isaacson

“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?”

Ends Past Wish Process Impossible Modern Century Products Endure Poetry Is Transition Extensions Romanticism Romantic Poetry Modern Poetry

Author:Randall Jarrell

“We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.”

Ends Impossible Shots Seasons Sells Episodes

Author:Aaron Spelling

“You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.”

Needs Trying Ends Energy Focus Impossible Please Waste The End Of The Day Make You Happy

Author:Lauren Conrad

“Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.”

“Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“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

“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.”

“At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.”

Mind Ends Past Spirit Impossible Shining Height Thoughts On Life End Of Life

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.”

People Ifs Ends Hard Government Stuff Class Impossible Middle Example Program Middle Class Receiving Entitlement Back Again Entitlement Programs

Author:Fred Thompson

“I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.”

Ifs Knows Love Mind Mean Ends States Hate Impossible Honest Flow Relation Not Sure Apples Cognitive Love Means

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.”

World Mind Made Ends Fire Impossible Roots Miracle Ecstasy Unchanging

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“When I turn in my list, obviously every record was important to me. I didn't just put records on there to put records on there. I was excited that "All I Do Is Win" could go on there because you hear it at the end of the game and that represents victory. That's undeniable. You can't hate on that, it's impossible.”

Important Ends Hate Turns Games Winning Records Impossible Goes On Victory Excited Lists

Author:DJ Khaled

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.”

People Ends Sometimes Would Be Together Law Justice Liberty Impossible Ought Conversation Raises Trade Meetings Consistent Conspiracy Assembly Hinder Facilitate Diversion Merriment Assembling

Author:Adam Smith

“It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle.”

Ifs Ends Impossible Middle Quitting

Author:Christine Caine

“By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!”

Ifs World Ends Plans Impossible Succeed Enlightenment Wake Up End Of The World Hahaha

Author:Osamu Tezuka

“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”

“Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.”

Important Ends Church Gone Impossible Groups Teaching Surrender Word Of God Forsake Denominations

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.”

World Littles Made Ends Player Impossible Died University Worthy Seats Halls Thinker Temperament Studious

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.”

“The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.”

Ifs Mind Said Ends Done Lasts Interest Impossible Achieve Things Done Public Service National Interests

Author:David Cameron

“I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.”

Ends Law Rights Impossible Color Exercise Lows Income Amendments Low Income Hyde

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom. Gordon Willis was the director of photography, and at the end of the day, Gordon turned to Woody Allen and said, "We cannot accomplish all of this in this space. It's impossible." And we'd been rehearsing and trying to shoot this thing all day. So Woody said, "Okay, let's do something else." He looked at me and said, "Come back tomorrow, I'll put you in something else." And he did.”

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