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Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.

Never only exists in your head. Anything is possible.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

Nothing is impossible in the United States.