Impossible Quotes - Page 17

• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mistake, Impossible Things, Understanding

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• So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, Drug, Serious

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Felicidad, Gobierno, Derecho

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• It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man - certainly out of necessity, but now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. It is an ugly institution for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Past, Simple

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• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Night, Pygmalion

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• It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.414, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• ... el Estado moderno se enmascara en ideologías morales que ocultan su conducta real. Una de las más convincentes e insidiosas de estas ideologías es la doctrina de los derechos naturales. El Estado moderno se inventó para garantizar estos derechos, y es imposible, especialmente para los estadounidenses, no dejarse seducir por la doctrina. Pero no deja de ser una superstición filosófica.

  Donald Livingston

  Filosofía, Derechos, Doctrina

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• Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.

  Philip E. Agre

  Philosophy, Decision, Literature

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• Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

  Michael N. Castle

  Sacrifice, Trying, Debt

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• Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

  Tahir Shah

  Believe, Impossible Becomes Possible, Firsts

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• I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teacher, Believe

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• You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

  John Wooden

  Team, Player, Two

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). "Me llaman entrenador", McGraw Hill Professional

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• Las oraciones audaces honran a Dios, y Dios honra las oraciones audaces... Cuanto más grande sea el círculo que trazamos, mejor, porque Dios recibe más gloria. Los mejores momentos de la vida son los momentos milagrosos en los que se cruzan la impotencia humana y la omnipotencia divina, y se cruzan cuando trazamos un círculo alrededor de las situaciones imposibles de nuestra vida e invitamos a Dios a intervenir.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Impossible Situations, Omnipotence

  Mark Batterson (2011). "Sé un Creador de Círculos: The Solution to 10,000 Problems", p.6, Zondervan

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• A Dios no le ofenden tus sueños más grandes ni tus oraciones más audaces. Le ofende todo lo que no sea eso. Si tus oraciones no son imposibles para ti, son insultantes para Dios.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Insulting

  Mark Batterson (2011). "Sé un Creador de Círculos: The Solution to 10,000 Problems", p.6, Zondervan

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• If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Circles

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• If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

  Steven Furtick

  Christian, Believe, Sleep

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.7, Multnomah

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• I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Past, World, Now And Then

  Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80

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• It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

  William Booth

  Corazón, Hombres, Pies

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• While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

  Robert Ardrey

  Unattainable, Pursue

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• If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

  Nathan Winograd

  Sueño, Perro, Filosofía

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• Believe in the impossible, for then you will find it possible.

  Rodney Collin

  Life, Believe

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• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Vida, Éxito, Lucha

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Es casi imposible que los niños y los jóvenes encuentren su camino a través de los mares de la vida sin la luz guía de un buen ejemplo.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Vida, Niños, Luz

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• It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Helping, Happy Day, Knows

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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