Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway!

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.

What's possible exceeds what's impossible. Think about it. Do all you can do that is possible today, and in your tomorrow, what was impossible will be possible.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing

When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.

When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

When oil goes over $40 a barrel it's almost impossible for America to do well.

When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.