#impossibility

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

Time travel..will never be impossible forever. ↗

— Toba Beta

#impossibility #new-science #time-travel #science

(Mal) We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#human-spirit #impossibility #team-work #spirit

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#impossibility #necessity #progress #yields

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#flew #impossibility #right #screen #smoke

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#impossibility #inspirational #inspirational

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#flew #impossibility #screen #smoke #through

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#assume #century #dinners #government #had