Norton Juster Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck -
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 -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo -
So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
Dalton McGuinty -
I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
Han Fei
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
Ze Frank -
In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Idris Elba -
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher -
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
Maira Kalman -
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde -
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
Albert Schweitzer -
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
Alan Ball -
When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
Matthew Desmond -
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
Patti Smith
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The Holy Spirit never convicts (Christians) of your sins. He never comes to point out your faults…. It does not take a revelation from the Holy Spirit to see that you have failed. However, when you know that you’ve failed what you do need is for the Holy Spirit to convict you of your righteousness.
Joseph Prince -
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf -
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
Victor Hugo -
In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.
Carlton Pearson -
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton Juster