Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

A commodity doesn't have the same characteristics as a security, characteristics that allow for analysis. Other than a recent sale or appreciation due to inflation, analyzing the current or future worth of a commodity is nearly impossible.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.In my new book, I open with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. In October 2001, he said of Afghanistan: "It's not a quagmire." Ten years later there are 150,000 Western troops there.

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

Almost too hot for skinny jeans, the impossible becomes the possible.

America doesn't make product anymore. You have other countries devalue their currencies. They make it impossible.

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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

A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.

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

An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

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?