“I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.” IfsThinkingWorldWayMindProblemRoomsOpinionPrinciplesImpossiblePlanetsTerribleHealOur WorldSmallestOur PlanetViewpointsAccommodateUnkindUnkindness Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.” ShouldLittlesFeltSidesLove IsRoomsGriefImpossibleDutyConscienceShould HaveCalmPityInjuryResentmentBoth SidesBruised Book:Selected Stories Source: Selected Stories
“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.” IfsShouldLittlesHappensNamesSpeakRoomsEducationTakenImpossibleChildhoodMissingCryTearsTaughtReadyNeglectOverlooked Author:Sarah Fielding
“One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work” IfsHardRoomsAttitudePlayerImpossibleTeamBasketballSelfishPoisonNbaLockersTeam WorkLocker Room Author:Dean Smith
“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.” ShouldFoundSpaceRoomsImpossibleWallMottoAstronautNasaRehabilitationNothing Is ImpossibleSpace Shuttle Author:Christopher Reeve