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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
Strength
Persistence
Soul
Perseverance
Strong
Weak
Distinguishes
All Things
Spite
Obstacles
Permanence
Impossibilities
Things
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man
Soul
Made
Vanish
Fires
His
Impossibilities
Anything
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
Possibilities
Impossibilities
Improbable
Probable
Preferred
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley
God
Faith
Alone
Cries
Laughs
Promise
Sees
Shall
Looks
Impossibilities
Done
Mighty
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Charles R. Swindoll
Opportunities
Stretched
Our
Alleged
Impossibilities
Capacities
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Robert H. Schuller
Today
Yesterday
Were
Impossibilities
Accomplishments
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie
Work
Best
You
World
Nothing
Believe
Has-Been
Best Work
Seeming
Doing
Been
Impossibilities
Up
Get
Done
Hold
Against
Then
Much
Your
Thing
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
Kyle Hill
God
Battle
Water
Fluid
Example
Doubting
Thomas
Way
Destroying
Cities
Allegory
Noah
Read
Scientific
Impossibilities
Historical
Walking
Person
Same
Story
Warning
Mechanics
Jesus
When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.
Roger Penrose
Work
Mathematics
Me
Try
Reading
Congress
Saw
Drawing
Inspired
Cambridge
Impossibilities
Hand
International
Fascinating
Amsterdam
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
Become
Living
Other
Our
Way
Ourselves
Tell
Must
Would
Lies
Maintain
Because
Without
Impossibilities
Deplorable
Them
Us
Many
Each
Acts
Necessary
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Bible
Sky
Living
Sun
Inside
Jonah
Scientific
Dubious
Still
Impossibilities
Whale
Full
Standing
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Nicholas Mosley
Opposites
Living
Adapting
Mark
Alive
Stay
Involved
Identity
Continually
Impossibilities
Itself
Cell
Thing
Living Thing
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Robert South
People
Care
Idleness
Shelter
Permission
Impossibilities
Done
Where
Anything
Cannot
Themselves
Creates
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