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It was impossible to get a conversation going,
by Yogi Berra

It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- 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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra

It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- 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

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra

The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus

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

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

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

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

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

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

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa

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

The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham

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

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

Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- Joseph P. Kennedy

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

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

The big question is whether you are going to be able
to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie