Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

One thing is for sure - if you are wearing a niqab, you will never, ever find a job. You will never, ever make friends, German friends or neighbors friends. So this is obviously something that is making integration impossible.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

Our God is the God of the impossible. When we say yes to doing new things as we step into our destiny, we'll get to see God show up and equip us for the journey ahead in miraculous ways.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.

Perfection is an impossible destination

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

People want incongruous, impossible things.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Progress is impossible without change

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.