You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
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You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
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.
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama._x000D_ _x000D_ Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
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