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An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

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.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

'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.

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.