“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.” TwoWould BeImpossibleWeatherRangeBroadsProbabilityPublishTwo DaysForecasts Author:Antoine Lavoisier
“In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.” TwoImaginationMemoriesFictionImpossibleWitnessIngredientsBroadsMillsProcessing Author:Rohinton Mistry
“It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.” LooksChildrenTwoGovernmentNationsResultsImpossibleThirdsProfessionAnalysis Book:Collected papers ... Source: Collected papers ...
“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.” ShouldTryingFirstsTwoBookReasonReadingTeachHellImpossibleAnnoyingPigsImpossibilityBooks And Reading Author:Will Rogers
“As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.” TwoCommonImpossibleSixLettersRangeComparisonSanityDisgustingSpellingMonstrosity Author:George Bernard Shaw
“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.” MeanTwoWholeHalfDoubtImpossibleEqualMathematicsMathProofLawyerMathematicalProgrammingMathematicianMathematical 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.” ThinkingMeanTwoHomeAbleNextImpossibleOppositesTwo ThingsNonsensePullingUnlimitedNext DayLooking ForwardConfrontingCambridgeGeneralities Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914 Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914
“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?” ThinkingSaidTwoNextAsksMistakeMoralImpossibleGenerationsDoorsRight NowCrisisSolveThese DaysResolveNext GenerationPlaywrightKnockingYounger GenerationMoral CourageNorwegiansIbsen Author:Al Gore
“I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.” IfsTwoMatterHoursHalfWatchesAudienceImpossibleEightFascinatedDocumentariesWoodyHalf HoursBrando Author:Brett Ratner
“Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.” TwoImpossibleHonestyAspectCreditExplanationFactions Book:Public Opinion Source: Public Opinion
“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.” KnowsFirstsTwoImportantReasonPhilosophyOpinionImpossibleMiddleIgnoranceTruth IsImportant ThingsThreatExtremesSensibleQuestsUnnecessaryMiddle GroundTwo ExtremesSocratic Author:Allan Bloom
“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.” Has BeensTwoGovernmentLastsPoliticalTermHalfImpossibleSubjectsCenturyTypeOrganizationAccountsDifficultyMereLogicalResolvePerversionMake Out Author:Albert J. Nock
“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.” TwoMovingHoursAnimalImpossibleGrewCreaturesScientistPlantSizeSmellStupiditySpeedSquaresYellowThickFavouritePrimitiveOrganismsYardsFrightMouldSlimePorridge Author:Neal Ascherson
“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.” TryingHumansTwoIdeasCoursesHuman BeingsImpossiblePaintingPlanetsTasksComplexesPaintSurfaceAbsurdOrganismsPortraitsPortraiture Author:David Cobley
“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.” IfsThinkingNeedsYearsBelieveLooksChildrenTwoMightAgeYoungParentAnswersWatchesImpossibleHuman NatureSelf EsteemCryJudgingMonthsEmbraceLongingAssumingParentingSpeciesRebelDisgustingEldersImpatienceRaising ChildrenYoung ChildrenDisdainBad Parenting Author:Jean Liedloff