#impossible

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres. ↗

— Hans Frank

#became #cooperate #development #economic #frame

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilization #extent #impossible #instinct #overlook

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#another #decide #does #ego #freedom

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

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

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#control #impossible #kenya #migrant #northern