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Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Hard and impossible are two different things!

Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

He’s a war mage. They’re almost impossible to kill.” He scowled. “Even on purpose.

He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

His words are nothing more than mist and sunshine, impossible to hold down.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.

Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to your kids' school, to whether you're exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis. And as a New Yorker, I found it impossible not to notice and be bothered by the huge number of homeless people in the city, as well as by the segregation and gentrification that's all around you.

How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

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

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 begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

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

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'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 care how impossible it seems.

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 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 understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.