#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. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fortress-of-impossibility #need #dreams

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible ↗

— Mildred D. Taylor

#inspirational #possibility #inspirational

Time travel..will never be impossible forever. ↗

— Toba Beta

#impossibility #new-science #time-travel #science

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. ↗

— Geena Davis

#free #free world #impossibility #leader #muslim

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#flew #impossibility #right #screen #smoke