Best would-be & impossible Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.”

Kind Has Beens Would Be Today Stars Pieces Impossible Tough Dramatic Verdict Newman

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Would Be Names Impossible Mines

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”

Reality Would Be Existence Impossible Structure Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”

Thinking Needs Would Be Language Impossible Abstract Anticipation Anticipate

Author:David Cronenberg

“I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.”

Thinking Stills States Would Be Today Levels Effort Economy Impossible Raises South Income Impossibility Carolina Dividends South Carolina

Author:Mark Sanford

“The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...”

Ifs May Would Be Impossible Heard Listening Offers Understood Ears Resistance Spite

Author:Teresa of Avila

“It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.”

I Can Would Be Leader Impossible Events Stupid Impossibility Impossible Things Future Events

Author:John Key

“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.”

“Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.”

World Humor Would Be Funny Impossible Prove Skins Twenties Champion Pace Theologian Chimpanzees Gorillas Heavyweights Autopsy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.”

People War Enough Helping Would Be Impossible Finance Welfare

Author:Ron Paul

“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

Trying Said Book Happens Would Be Film Impossible

Author:Giovanna Cau

“If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Running Jesus Christ Christianity Lord Impossible Dying Demand Died Response Surrender Christian Life Relate Obedience Savior Forgiven His Love

Author:Rebecca Pippert

“Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted.”

Feels Kind Stills Would Be Universe Existence Nice Impossible Terrorism All Kinds Hostile Distracted Pessimist Very Nice

Author:Woody Allen

“Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.”

Want Humans Would Be Understanding Impossible Human Nature Design Products China Iphone

Author:Ai Weiwei

“If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.”

Ifs Would Be Impossible Architect Optimist

Author:Norman Foster

“The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.”

Knows Would Be Community Impossible Modern Effects Responsible Factors Broke Modern Life Automobile Disruption Broke Up

Author:Alexander Lowen

“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”

“It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work.”

Thinking World Would Be Past Impossible Acceptance Demand Blind Mythology Resolve Sheer Testament New Testament Blind Acceptance

Author:Rudolf Bultmann

“As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.”

Ifs Men Would Be Fall Force Sleep Impossible Mankind Industry Cease Going To Sleep Castes Communes Caste System Emulation Disheartened

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Would Be Names Impossible Source Rivers Following First Person

Book:Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

Source: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.”

Ifs Knows Way Happens Would Be Past Impossible Machines Cease Sand Our Past Breeze Shifting Spun Time Machine Seashore Blackboard Shifting Sand

Book:Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

“It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.”

Matter Would Be Lying Impossible Probability Unlikely

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

Writing Would Be Able Desire Impossible Atheism Subjects Expression Offers Sake Positive Atheism Profession Atmosphere Consistently Disobedience Civil Disobedience Trunks Satyagraha

Book:Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone”

Ifs Heart Would Be Moving Language Growth Sin Forget Grace Progress Impossible Conscious Notes Saint Lovely Gracious Sanctity Unawareness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.”

Would Be Next Impossible Vanity Vain Handsome

Author:Joseph Joubert

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