Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to your kids' school, to whether you're exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis. And as a New Yorker, I found it impossible not to notice and be bothered by the huge number of homeless people in the city, as well as by the segregation and gentrification that's all around you.

How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?

How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.