Impossibilities Quotes (page 12)

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• book
• reading
• commitment

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. John Waters

• someone
• the who
• truthfully

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. Romain Rolland

• reality
• breakfast
• change

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and... Karen Armstrong

• imagination
• saying
• take

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination. Michael Phelps

• greatness
• happy
• life

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good. C. S. Lewis

• love
• fall
• trip

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. Albert Einstein

• grace
• thinking
• focus

I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Getting your clothes off gracefully, always such an impossibility; thinking up what to say afterwards, without setting the echoes going in your head. Worse, the encounter with another set of particularities: the toenails, the ear-holes, the nosehairs. Perhaps at this age we return to the prudishness we had as children. Margaret Atwood

• time
• dream
• destiny

At that point in their lives, everything is clear an everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But , as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny. Paulo Coelho

• short
• free
• military

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders Woodrow Wilson

• time
• bed
• confidence

Under your shelter all things come and go. Children are violent and valiant, they run and they shout like the winners of impossible victories, but before long now, even like me, they will be brought into their sleep. Those who are grown great talk with confidence and are at all times skillful to serve and to protect, but before long now they too, before long, even like me, will be taken in and put to bed. Soon come those hours when no one wakes. Even the locusts, even the crickets, silent... James Agee

• dream
• expectation
• believe

There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it. Paulo Coelho

• thinking
• understanding
• universe

The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole. Blaise Pascal

• bad
• badness
• taste

It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg

• eating
• eats
• eat

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• simple
• sometimes
• predictive

And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. Mark Haddon