#impossible

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#face #fall #him #his #impossible

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code. ↗

— Randall Terry

#civil #civil government #code #god #government

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone. ↗

— Dante Hall

#city #everybody #everyone #get #had

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#good #harm #impossible #perhaps #person

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #decisions #how #ill #impossible

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#ashamed #because #behind #blueprint #endlessly

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

#been #cannot #centuries #done #enough

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. ↗

— Patrick White

#breathed #cannot #component #dividing #explain

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#easily #genius #impossible #mark #others