Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

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 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.

[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.

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.

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 she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.