I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.
Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
