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Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.

Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.

Some things are plain hard, and by that nature inescapably attractive to creatives, but not necessarily to the budget holders. The impossible, the undone, the "unhappened" - these are where creative and scientific minds endeavor to plant the first footprint in the dust.

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

Stopping me? That's impossible. There's not anything that can really stop me.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.