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“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

“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.”

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Author:Amelia Earhart

“It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.”

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Kind Persons Long Term Impossible Grew Grew Up Concepts Long Term Transition Relatable Long Term Relationship

Author:Rashida Jones

“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 i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.”

Trying Impossible Consequence Clever

Author:Christopher Strachey

“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.”

Trying Doe Done Whole Shows Fighting Memories Impossible Dying Filled Whole Life Preserves Stopping

Author:Christian Boltanski

“Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.”

Trying Impossible Solitude Madness Down And Boundaries Sanity Slow Down Shifting Madness And Sanity

Author:Jose Mujica

“To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.”

Trying Impossible Enterprise

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.”

Trying Children Night Passion Sound Space Emotion Behinds Impossible Painting Happenings Surprise Paint Rings Bars Breasts Lions Scream Tigers Rockets Chunks

Author:Karel Appel

“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

“Having said that, what I think we found, in doing the show, and in life, generally, is that the more you try to separate sex from everything else, it's impossible. You can't. The act of observation affects the actual experiment, and we see that in this.”

Thinking Trying Said Shows Found Sex Impossible Experiments Observation

Author:Michael Sheen

“It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.”

“Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.”

People Trying Impossible Achieve Succeed Clue

Author:John Avery

“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

“That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.”

Trying Home Courses Games Views Impossible Aspect Agree Philosopher Chess Theoretical Discredit

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.”

Trying Littles Hands Bigs Easy Impossible Big Things Easy Things

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Language Challenges Impossible Sight Composer

Author:Michala Petri

“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Character Impossible Modern Normal Percent Gravity Jeans Costumes Diminish Larger Than Life Center Of Gravity

Author:Ray Stevenson

“When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.”

Way Trying Two Self Helping Together Natural Behinds Talking Impossible Conscious Shots Cameras Colleagues Self Conscious Singles

Author:Tom Courtenay

“It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.”

Trying Care Fun Impossible Having Fun Ping Ping Pong

Author:Seth Godin

“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

Trying Hard Impossible Expression Crosses Hard Times Republic Bicycle Niagara Dominican Republic

Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.”

Way Trying Years Children Art Said Gone Impossible One Thing Return Raised

Author:Hillary Clinton

“What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.”

“I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.”

Thinking Trying Impossible Definitions Boxes

Author:Paula White

“We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.”

People Trying Sometimes Shows Age House Stuff Impossible This Day

Author:Scott Eastwood

“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.”

“There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish a better classroom environment, and the results and transformations were profound. It's impossible to ignore, and we make some passing references in my film, but 'A Room to Breathe' is a closer look at just how powerful meditation can be.”

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Author:James Redford

“[people] very fact that it's decentralized makes it literally impossible to try to hack or rig the results.”

People Trying Facts Results Impossible Hacks Rigs

Author:Audie Cornish

“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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