Impossible Quotations

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

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

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

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

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

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

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

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

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

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.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

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

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

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

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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 space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

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

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

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.

The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary.

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

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

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.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

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

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession ... That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is 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.

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

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Success in football is impossible without a good school.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.