110 quotes found
“Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.”
“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.”
“Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.”
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”
“Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.”
“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is t...”
“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”
“But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstratio...”
“It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”
“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
“Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fello...”
“There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible those of fact are contingent and their opposite is poss...”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”
“We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and t...”
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
“A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.”
“Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.”
