Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Shetterly

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

Joyce Meyer

We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Brandon Sanderson

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

Fernando Pessoa

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

George Saunders

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Wesley Clark

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

Saul Alinsky

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Neil Young

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Peter Drucker

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

Francis Atterbury

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Henry David Thoreau

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Hunter S. Thompson

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.