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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 care how impossible it seems.

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.

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

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

I dreamt the impossible dream and I’m living it right this moment.

I feel like nothing is impossible.

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 feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.