All Quotes

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.
‐‐ Maira Kalman

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
‐‐ Epicurus

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved.
‐‐ Mireille Mathieu

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
‐‐ Muriel Spark

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
‐‐ Khaleda Zia

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
‐‐ Jim Bishop

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
‐‐ George Washington

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
‐‐ Muriel Spark

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
‐‐ James Hillman

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
‐‐ Karl Popper

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.
‐‐ Cary Fowler

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
‐‐ Herman Melville

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
‐‐ Arthur Baer

It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
‐‐ M. F. K. Fisher

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
‐‐ Arthur Eddington

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
‐‐ Sloan Wilson

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
‐‐ Henry Adams

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.
‐‐ Paul Singer

It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
‐‐ Richard M. DeVos

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
‐‐ Camille Claudel

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
‐‐ Robert Wilson Lynd

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
‐‐ James Smithson

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
‐‐ Zhou Yongkang

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
‐‐ George W. S. Trow

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
‐‐ John Updike

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra