#impossible

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#cannot #confident #defeat #deprived #fear

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#bad #either #finished #funny #good

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#becomes #breaking #crack #crime #criminals

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

— Ernest Renan

#always #asked #because #complain #impossible

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#created #dependent #impossible #influence #inner

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ↗

— Doug Larson

#enough #feats #greatest #impossible #know

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. ↗

— William Law

#another #hearts #impossible #live #lives

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#anything #cameras #cooking #feel #front