Impossibles Movie Quotes & Sayings

depends on all of the people who use the language. — Philip Hill

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. — Jean De La Bruyere

Having the Mass in one's native language is no guarantee that a person will understand the mystery of the Mass. On the contrary, if the vesture of the ceremony is too familiar, the participants too easily thinks he has mastered what it's all about. The familiar becomes the routine, the routine becomes ignored. Our own language is a comfort zone that insulates us form the shock of the Gospel, the scandal of the Cross, the lure of the unknown. I would rather have a huge dose of foreignness, of music that is not current, words that are strange, language that is archaic, hieratic gestures that are grandly incongruous to a democratic society. A person thrown into this situation knows at least that he is dealing with something utterly different and possibly far deeper than his day-to-day occupations. — Peter Kwasniewski

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity. — Dylan Moran

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent. — Francis Bacon

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality. — Jane Jacobs

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man. — Victor Hugo

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear. — Pauline Marois

We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy makes randy; liquor makes desire flicker"; or, as Shakespeare's porter said to Macduff: "[drink] provokes the desire but it takes away the performance." The wines and beers of antiquity, however, which were potent infusions of innumerable psychoactive plants, often requiring dilution with water and in which alcohol served rather as preservative then inebriating active principle. — Rick Doblin

The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him. — Les Dawson

When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ... — Henry Ford