Zitat des Tages über Unmöglichkeit / Impossibility:
I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.
I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility.
'Supercentenarian' is the term used by longevity experts to signify a near numerical impossibility: those who've outpaced 99.9999 percent of the population and landed in the 110+ Club.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.