#impossibility

I believe that the word "hope" was created to strengthen one's belief that miracles can happen. I believe that the word "love" was created to represent a miracle in it's purest form. ↗

— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

#faith #hope #impossibility #love #miracle

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. ↗

— William Golding

#impossibility #money #power #money

When a person boldly declares, 'You can't,' he might as well add on, 'can you?', knowing that this spoken roadblock only serves to fuel a challenge in naturally stubborn souls. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dare #impossibility #richelle #richelle-goodrich #roadblock

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#magic #possibility #science #technology #science

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory. ↗

— Criss Jami

#failure #falling #glory-of-god #god #healing

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

#independent #nearly #poor #very

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#impossible #universe

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even