Impossible Things

Never tell a young

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. G. M. Trevelyan

War is such a peculiar thing – inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning – even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops Errol Morris

When people complain of

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. Ernest Renan

Impossible things are simply

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done. Elbert Hubbard

No one ever gets

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. Elbert Hubbard

You never have a

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it’s an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence. Eleanor Roosevelt

The law compells no

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law. Edward Coke

You must be accommodating

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do. Frederick Lenz

Start by doing what\’s

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

The feelings that hurt

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd – The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s … Read more