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It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
- 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
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You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- 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
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
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 walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
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
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
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
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
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
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
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
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
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
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
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
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