Incompossible Quotes

#1. INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

George Herbert

#3. Every time I'm near her I want to pour accelerant all over my anger so it burns us both to ash.

Kennedy Ryan

#4. I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Justin Torres

#5. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#6. The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Bainbridge Colby

#7. My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Guy De La Valdene

#8. Never thought I'd see the day when you'd throw your arms around a vam - someone like me

Richelle Mead

#9. I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Harry Mathews

#10. A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength - life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

Elizabeth McGovern

#12. What I impose, I must accept.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#13. You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

Joan Osborne

#14. When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

Brit Marling

#16. People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

Louis Zamperini