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Quotes About The Impossible: ►Who defines what is impossible? No one. Impossible is simply the set of things that we have not YET achieved. ►Every record ever broken and every formerly ''impossible'' journey began with one person, taking one step forward and acting on their dream. Hear, then, ''impossible feat'' (feet) as the ultimate oxymoron. *Quotations by Brad Mittman MD – Brad Mittman MD	added by hopefil 2 years ago
The Yale Book of Quotations. – Fred Shapiro	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am not certain of the exact wording or the book it is in, but the essence of the statement is, When you meditate you facilitate the growth of the entire world. I have searched the internet but have not found it. It is such a profound statement it deserves to be listed with his other quotations, and he even said it before RUPERT SHELDRAKE POSTULATED MORPHOGENETIC RESONANCE. – Joel S. Goldsmith	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile. – Jean Genet	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. – Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. – Louise Guiney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. – B. J. Gupta	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. – Hesketh Pearson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. – Caldwell O'Keefe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. – C. E. Montague	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. – Robert M. Hamilton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. – Orson Welles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. – Andre Malraux	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. – Marlene Dietrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. – Amanda Cross	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. – William Feather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Quotes About The Impossible: ►Who defines what is impossible? No one. Impossible is simply the set of things that we have not YET achieved. ►Every record ever broken and every formerly ''impossible'' journey began with one person, taking one step forward and acting on their dream. Hear, then, ''impossible feat'' (feet) as the ultimate oxymoron. *Quotations by Brad Mittman MD

– Brad Mittman MD

added by hopefil
2 years ago

The Yale Book of Quotations.

– Fred Shapiro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I am not certain of the exact wording or the book it is in, but the essence of the statement is, When you meditate you facilitate the growth of the entire world. I have searched the internet but have not found it. It is such a profound statement it deserves to be listed with his other quotations, and he even said it before RUPERT SHELDRAKE POSTULATED MORPHOGENETIC RESONANCE.

– Joel S. Goldsmith

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

– Jean Genet

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

– Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

– Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

added by anonymous
13 years ago

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

– Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

– Louise Guiney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.

– B. J. Gupta