Best 1645 quotes in «impossible quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 to force, it is impossible to hinder.

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.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

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 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!

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

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.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

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 essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible. Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

The global supply of oil is going to decline because we've used up a good deal of the easy-to-get oil. We're going to reach a point in the not-too-distant future when it is impossible to keep increasing the daily supply.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

The impossible isn't a limitation, it's an invitation.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.