Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

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

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 time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

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.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Commitment achieves today what yesterday was impossible.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

Dream the impossible dream.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.