impossible

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47d8755	Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.	anything-can-be hope impossible inspirational musn-t possibilities shouldn-t won-t	Shel Silverstein
8f6be58	There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.	denial impossible logic past reality	Douglas Adams
b224fae	"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation- the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."	ambivalent hopeless hopelessness implausible impossible inner-conflict intelligence opposing-views	F. Scott Fitzgerald
a83290d	"But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all."	cheshire hope impossible	Marissa Meyer
ecc7373	We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.	impossible miracle persuade	Paul Auster
1f8a5f9	It is impossible to erase my choices.	impossible tobias tris	Veronica Roth
662e323	With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.	conquer courage fears hope impossible inspirational	Juliet Marillier
db2d570	Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.	god impossible on-board truth	Jodi Picoult
0d1572e	"How can you be a lover of love	faith god hafez hafiz impossible in-love kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri love love-movement love-poems love-quotes love-revolution love-wins lover religion rumi spiritual spirituality sufi sufism	Kamand Kojouri
dc96907	Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose.	impossible moriarty occams-razor	Kim Newman
b7c6684	Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained--something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;	desire expectations impossible insane reality thought	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3a16830	Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly. When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.	charlie-bone determination father henry impossible missing mother mr-pilgrim saddness	Jenny Nimmo
a17f87b	In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear - sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.	counterfeit fear future impossible sorrow unattainable unworthy	Franz Kafka
b3ad9cd	For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.	impossible	Lewis Carroll
135f202	"Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's again." And then one day it hit me: kitchens don't . Just as at home, at a certain point in the night, I stop the kitchen--but at three in the morning, if I want to, I still have the ability to go downstairs and "re-open" the kitchen by turning on the stove and opening the refrigerator! Restaurants are not banks; at the stroke of ten an enormous airlock doesn't seal off the kitchen and render the preparation of food an utter ./ No, kitchens can open and budgets are what certain people say they are."	analogy budget budget-cuts budgeting economy humor impossible possible	Bill Maher
f020602	"Did you forget the dressing room at the mall?" Forget? I have wet dreams involving that day. "That's not my fault. You asked how you looked in those jeans." "Good would have sufficed. Attempting to take them off wasn't necessary." "They did look good. Good enough that I wanted to touch, and then I wanted to touch more." Echo laughs, and the sound warms my heart. "They have security cameras. People go to jail over stuff like that." I roll onto my side and drape my leg over hers. "I had you covered from sight. Very covered." Backed her up against the wall and covered her body with every inch of mine. That siren smile that I love so much crosses her face. Her fingers reach up and trace the line of my jaw. "You are the most impossible person I know." "Damn straight."	echo-emerson impossible noah-hutchins take-off	Katie McGarry
a3d6b8b	They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.	impossible jeffrey-eugenides love suicide the-virgin-suicides unattainable	Jeffrey Eugenides
88819d4	"Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said."	difficult impossible industry possible	Jim Butcher

47d8755

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

anything-can-be hope impossible inspirational musn-t possibilities shouldn-t won-t

Shel Silverstein

8f6be58

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

denial impossible logic past reality

Douglas Adams

b224fae

"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation- the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."

ambivalent hopeless hopelessness implausible impossible inner-conflict intelligence opposing-views

F. Scott Fitzgerald

a83290d

"But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all."

cheshire hope impossible

Marissa Meyer

ecc7373

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

impossible miracle persuade

Paul Auster

1f8a5f9

It is impossible to erase my choices.

impossible tobias tris

Veronica Roth

662e323

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

conquer courage fears hope impossible inspirational

Juliet Marillier

db2d570

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

god impossible on-board truth

Jodi Picoult

0d1572e

"How can you be a lover of love

faith god hafez hafiz impossible in-love kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri love love-movement love-poems love-quotes love-revolution love-wins lover religion rumi spiritual spirituality sufi sufism

Kamand Kojouri

dc96907

Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem yet to be solved. We must not eliminate the impossible, we must conquer it, suborn it to our purpose.

impossible moriarty occams-razor

Kim Newman

b7c6684

Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained--something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;

desire expectations impossible insane reality thought

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3a16830

Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly. When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

charlie-bone determination father henry impossible missing mother mr-pilgrim saddness

Jenny Nimmo

a17f87b

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear - sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.

counterfeit fear future impossible sorrow unattainable unworthy

Franz Kafka

b3ad9cd

For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

impossible

Lewis Carroll

135f202

"Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o'clock and they say "the kitchen is closed." For years I would hear this, and think, "damn, just a little too late, oh well, thank you, I guess it's Denny's again." And then one day it hit me: kitchens don't . Just as at home, at a certain point in the night, I stop the kitchen--but at three in the morning, if I want to, I still have the ability to go downstairs and "re-open" the kitchen by turning on the stove and opening the refrigerator! Restaurants are not banks; at the stroke of ten an enormous airlock doesn't seal off the kitchen and render the preparation of food an utter ./ No, kitchens can open and budgets are what certain people say they are."

analogy budget budget-cuts budgeting economy humor impossible possible

Bill Maher

f020602

"Did you forget the dressing room at the mall?" Forget? I have wet dreams involving that day. "That's not my fault. You asked how you looked in those jeans." "Good would have sufficed. Attempting to take them off wasn't necessary." "They did look good. Good enough that I wanted to touch, and then I wanted to touch more." Echo laughs, and the sound warms my heart. "They have security cameras. People go to jail over stuff like that." I roll onto my side and drape my leg over hers. "I had you covered from sight. Very covered." Backed her up against the wall and covered her body with every inch of mine. That siren smile that I love so much crosses her face. Her fingers reach up and trace the line of my jaw. "You are the most impossible person I know." "Damn straight."

echo-emerson impossible noah-hutchins take-off

Katie McGarry

a3d6b8b

They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.

impossible jeffrey-eugenides love suicide the-virgin-suicides unattainable

Jeffrey Eugenides

88819d4

"Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said."

difficult impossible industry possible

Jim Butcher