Best impossible & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!”

Believe Mean Problem Body Impossible Health Disease Doctors Medicine Medical Cures Symptoms Viewpoints Correcting Good Doctors

Author:Philip K. Chapman

“The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.”

Mean Social Process Results Impossible Economic Perfection Available Instance Goods Quantity Inherent Irrational Unlimited Constraints

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

Want Mean Mistake Impossible Simplicity Fewer Reduction

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.”

“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 mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

Mean Two Whole Half Doubt Impossible Equal Mathematics Math Proof Lawyer Mathematical Programming Mathematician Mathematical Proof

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.”

Thinking Mean Two Home Able Next Impossible Opposites Two Things Nonsense Pulling Unlimited Next Day Looking Forward Confronting Cambridge Generalities

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.”

World Years Mean Ideas Character Strong Wonder Impossible Treats Arise Great Idea Strong Character

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

Want Mean Moments Asks Goal Impossible Journey Length Impatience

Book:Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

Source: Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

“Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”

Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

“I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.”

Ifs Mean Character Use Eye Morning Impossible Wake Up Pressure Bags Glamorous Pimples

Author:Halle Berry

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.”

Want Mean Different Political Nations Wealth Common Economy Impossible Succeed Mathematics Circles Eras Compare Political Economy Different Eras

Book:A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

“It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.”

Mean Doe Differences Impossible Dog Labels Meaningless Dobermans

Author:Ann Coulter

“Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.”

Needs Mean Waiting Impossible Activity Weakness Checks Command Definite Waiting On God Need Strength

Author:G. Campbell Morgan

“Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.”

Mean Impossible

Author:Roger Bannister

“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.”

Men Mean Long Has Beens Impossible Blood Conditions Drink Normal Men And Women Noble Bourbon

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“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.”

“The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.”

“I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious ? no one is going to wear that ? and people are like, you're brilliant!.”

People Mean States Jobs Walks Common Mistake Impossible Fashion Like You Genius Models Obvious Brilliant Common Sense Runway

Author:David Wolfe

“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

“Theres a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that its kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.”

Thinking Knows Kind May Mean Feelings Bigs Impossible Expression Corners Enormous Crash Subconscious Apocalypse Speculation Zombie Around The Corner Zombie Apocalypse

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!”

Mean Doe Found Sound Impossible Son Tired Awful My Son Bloody Tossers

Author:Laurence Fox

“Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.”

Mean Character Might Realizing Imagination Impossible Difficulty Various Manifestation Finding Yourself Interpretation Capture Void Pictorial

Author:Frantisek Kupka

“Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.”

Inspirational Mean Political Impossible Tasks

Author:Chanakya

“The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.”

Should Mean Persons Political Ability Impossible Tasks Employee Efficient Rulers

Author:Chanakya

“It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.”

People May Mean Body Form Class Millions Impossible Investing Educate Interpreter

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.”

Mean Feelings Action Evil Names Emotion Moral Virtue Impossible Murder Regard Blame Dues Envy Instance Excess Adultery Theft Malice Deficiency Observance Being Bad

Author:Aristotle

“Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Mean Long Hard Next Impossible Like You Debt Going Away Loan Bankruptcy Declaring

Author:Alexa Von Tobel

“The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.”

Ifs World Trying Mean Hard Universe Difficult Impossible Packs Difficult Things World Love Exaggerating

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.”

Mean Impossible Failing Succeed Application

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.”

Mean Facts Certain Impossible Son Died Rose Scary Absurd Buried

Book:The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“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

“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”

Knows Want Feels May Mean Stories Reality Truth Fiction Novel Impossible Reader Adults Tests Rings Tales Fantastic Fairy Fairy Tale Realism True Life

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.”

World Mean Two Three Next Water Numbers Cases Impossible Missing Products Quantity Accurate Counting Measurement Tomatoes Gallons Discontinuity Integers

Author:Gregory Bateson

“It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.”

Mean States Impossible Team

Author:Jason Kilar

“One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness”

Mean Natural Impossible Birth Increase Rate Population Sickness Mortality Reducing Famine Reduction Demographics Insufficient Birth Rate Draconian

Author:Robert McNamara

“God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Littles I Can Facts Jesus Heaven Wish Grows Growing Up Impossible Arms Opposites Bigger Aim Faults Saint Lifts Spite Going To Heaven

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“You know, what is team chemistry? My opinion is when you have enough people who care about winning and enough people who losing affects. That's what chemistry means to me. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, but you're going to have enough people on the same page. It's almost impossible, I think, to get everyone on the same page, but it's gotta mean something to you.”

People Thinking Knows Mean Enough Care Winning Opinion Impossible Team Pages Losing Chemistry Who Cares

Author:Derek Jeter

“Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet.”

Ifs Mean Courses Roles Five Imagine Impossible Materials Treats Rays Brad

Author:David Kirschner

“Oh Young Frankenstein - that's right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I mean, you know, it - they just keep going on and on and on - Mission: Impossible. And, you know, I think that the writers are having so much fun now with them that, you know, half the time, you know, people are just sitting around saying - trying to think of what's a great movie to copy.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Mean Body Young Lost Fun Half Impossible Sitting Missions Heat Copies Keep Going Sitting Around Ark Raiders Body Heat Mission Impossible

Author:Debra Messing

“It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.”

People Thinking Mean Fun Impossible Awards Contests Ceremony Award Ceremonies

Author:Greg Brown

“Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.”

Should Mean Would Be Today Beautiful Impossible Inspire Models Ideals Accepted Beautiful Women Starving Inspire Others Being Accepted

Author:Crystal Renn

“True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.”

Mean Littles Love Is Principles Impossible True Love Is

Author:Len Smith

“Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything any more. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing.”

Thinking Knows Want Years Believe Mean Persons Stills Reason Would Be Wanted Romance House Names I Believe Creativity Forever Impossible Hundred Staying Modernity Mcqueen

Author:Sarah Burton

“Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.”

“I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.”

People Mean Realizing Impossible

Author:Bill Murray

“It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.”

Mean Christian Impossible Acceptance Justification Homosexuality Homosexual Recruit

Author:John Hagee

“To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.”

Mean States Lost Sin Hell Grace Impossible Dangerous Salvation Saved Occasions Dread Recourse

Book:The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

Source: The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

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