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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Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
Samantha Smith -
We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Joe Lieberman -
The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.
Caroline Myss -
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?
Masashi Kishimoto -
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton Juster