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“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.”

Should Seems Humanity Natural Accepting Impossible Confusion Organized Disorder Habitual Natural Things

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.”

Knows Should Trying Two Three Winning Difficult Impossible Madness

Author:Brian Cody

“Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.”

Thinking Should Art Enough Able Poetry Artist Impossible Poet Valuable Accomplishment Poetry Is Rise Above

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.”

Should Firsts Art Lasts Healing Principles Impossible Details Cosmos Providence Prophecy

Author:Sallust

“In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Reason Body Might Impossible

Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”

Should Grace Impossible Mercy

Book:Revelations of divine love

Source: Revelations of divine love

“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

“If, then, there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of Being it must be. And to that it is very obvious to Reason, that it must necessarily be a cogitative Being. For it is as impossible to conceive that ever bare incogitative Matter should produce a thinking intelligent Being, as that nothing should of itself produce Matter.”

Ifs Thinking Should Matter Reason Impossible Produce Eternal Intelligent Obvious If Then

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.”

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”

Should Firsts Made Country Whole Government Law Steps Wise Impossible Empires Most Wise

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .”

People Ifs Should Trying Kind Would Be Wanted My Own Existence Impossible Republican Decades Flying Shakes Resolve Flags Patriot Unjust Endeavour Yoke Lethargy

Author:James Stephens

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; the process is its own reward. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

Ifs Men Should Trying Said Done Process Can Do Challenges Impossible Failing Rewards

Author:Amelia Earhart

“That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.”

Should Mind States Perfect Impossible Conception Void

Book:The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

“There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.”

Ifs Should Universe Causes Space Impossible Difficulty Another Time

Book:The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

Source: The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

“On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.”

Should Found Space Rooms Impossible Wall Motto Astronaut Nasa Rehabilitation Nothing Is Impossible Space Shuttle

Author:Christopher Reeve

“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

“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.”

“I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.”

Should Able Impossible Percent Pressure Suggesting Superwoman

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“There's obviously more of us than there is men, so that's why its important that you feel like its someone you want to be with long term. You should make it impossible for a man/woman to want someone else providing all the things within reason.”

Men Want Feels Should Long Important Reason Term Impossible Long Term Providing Men Women

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?”

Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India

“The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?”

“Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.”

Source: Aristotle: the art of rhetoric

“It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.”

Should Stories Individual Social Environment Impossible Achievement

Author:Reid Hoffman

“It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.”

Ifs Should Trying Mind Moving Force Numbers Responsibility Impossible Areas Organization Strategy Constant Target Permit Pins Always Trying

Author:Saul Alinsky

“O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.”

Men Should Doe Done Asks Powerful Knowing Impossible Busy Casts Active Engaged Not Knowing Good Work

Author:Martin Luther

“If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.”

Ifs Feels Should Trying Character Dies Impossible Balance Accomplish

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.”

Should Young Speak Impossible Style Praise Dare Novelists Defiance Dickens

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.”

Men World Want Should Has Beens Art Said Night Song Sound Wonder Impossible Musician Art Is Jazz Shoes Instance Tied Great Art Jazz Music Carter Jazz Musician Mascara Rouge

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

Should Dream Imagination Impossible Creation Pure Conscious Should Have Mark Silly Perceive Insanity Makers Freak

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”

“As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.”

Should Doe Light Seems Certain Impossible Special Elements Capable Sensitive Nerves Sensibility Organisms Lowest Natural Selection

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

“If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.”

Ifs Men Should Whole Desire Order Universe Causes Impossible Particular Masters Ought Aim Finals Architect Efficient Exceed Wisest Wisest Man

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.”

People Knows Should Reason Young Impossible Idleness Chastisement

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.”

Should Writing Littles Pain Novel Taken Impossible Example Tvs Internet Accounts Credit Endless Forests Ass All Time Damn Distraction Filling Paragraph Dickens Ranking Filling In Mutton

Author:Steve Hely

“I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.”

Thinking Should Long Realizing Perfect Vision Impossible Long Time Ideals Sat Paralyzed

Author:Lev Grossman

“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.”

“It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable.”

People Needs Should Helping Problem Passion Sports Practice Millions Impossible Healthy Solve Lifestyle Pills Fashionable Healthy Lifestyle Health Problems

Author:Vladimir Putin

“One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.”

Should Easy Impossible Virtuous Virtuous Life

Author:Anthony the Great