Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

'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.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

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.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Be realistic: Go for the impossible!

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Believe the unbelievable and receive the impossible.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

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 it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

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

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

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 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.

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?

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

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?

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 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.

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.

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

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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

Commitment achieves today what yesterday was 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.