Impossible Burdens Quotes

#1. I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Eddie Vedder

#2. Better not I tell you. You want to know what I do? I say doudou, if you have trouble you are right to come to me. And I kiss her. It's when I kiss her she cry - not before.

Jean Rhys

#3. The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens.

Marc Secchia

#4. I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Philipp Meyer

#5. Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?

Kahlil Gibran

#6. Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Amira Hass

#8. If we can't be ourselves, why even be?

Scott Hildreth

#9. Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. Alec didn't normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed.

Gail Carriger

#11. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Arthur Gordon Webster

#12. I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

Ritchie Blackmore

#13. Heavy burdens are not for everyone, for some they are impossible ... These are my thoughts, if you need them so much.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Books don't have eyes, but the good ones always seem to find a way to the heart to fuel the passion we call reading.

George Paul

#15. My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.

Agatha Christie

#16. If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Susannah McCorkle