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impossible-things rough knows
Impossible things are really rough to do, you know. Brandon Sanderson
impossible-things people attention
My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it. Arnold Schwarzenegger
impossible-things breakfast six
There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast. Agatha Christie
impossible-things self hands
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good. C. S. Lewis
impossible-things democracy degenerates
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. Mahatma Gandhi
impossible-things intellectual merit
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. Jorge Luis Borges
impossible-things desire rising
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. George Saunders
impossible-things absurd mystic
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. Fernando Pessoa
impossible-things needs world
I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things. Buzz Aldrin
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
intellectual speak tradition
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
intellectual age hussain
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
intellectual politics moral
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
intellectual labels misunderstanding
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett
intellectual might persuading
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land
intellectual progress adequate
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural. Bertrand Russell
merit
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
merit lord devotion
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. Chanakya
merit method should
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
merit modesty poor-richard
Great Modesty often hides great Merit. Benjamin Franklin
merit affection
The more merit, the less affection. Baltasar Gracian
merit
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. Ben Affleck
merit
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. Jean Giraudoux
merits politics prioritize
On my team, we prioritize merits over politics. Ron Barber
merits possessed qualities sublime
May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.