Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

At what point in human history, when was the last time it was possible for any human being to know everything that was known at that time? For example, it is humanly impossible for any human being to know everything now. So how are we gonna define smart?

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Believe the unbelievable and receive the impossible.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Be realistic: Go for the impossible!

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.