It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Mother Teresa
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Fasten your safety belts, clench your buttocks!
It's going be a bumpy ride!
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
A politician needs the ability to
foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards
to explain why it didn't happen.
- Winston Churchill
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The big question is whether you are going to be able
to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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