Quotes About Impossibilities

Can you ground your faith on such impossibilities?

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

Unlike the physiological emotions of animals, our feelings are forever articulating themselves, making sense of themselves, narrating themselves, appealing to moral and other expectations, and rights and wrongs, and possibilities and impossibilities, to uphold or question themselves. They are often normative, as in the case of the anger felt at an injustice.

Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Wisdom I who have decided to love mankind instead of men, to love life's contradictions, impossibilities. I who have grown into a fine old philosopher, when suddenly the telephone rings, his voice prickling the length of my neck. Or he teases me, calls me sweet little goose and my heart careens. What we love in another is the life in that person; that is why we must never seek to possess him. sweet little goose

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.

Quería eso, pero esperaba más. Sufre uno por aquello que espera, más que por lo que quiere. Aceptamos que los deseos puedan ser imposibles, pero jamás las expectativas, que son como las deudas del destino.

For another thing, there's so much they don't know. And not knowing things makes them know lots of other things grownups can't know. That sounds confusing and it is. But look at it this way. Every time you teach a kid something, you teach him a hundred things that are impossible because that one thing is so. By the time we grow up, our world is so hedged around by impossibilities that it's a wonder we ever try anything new.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.' 'Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.' 'Nothing, madame?' 'Nothing' she replied.

Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won't go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities.

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.