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Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet....

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.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

We've got great officials in this league. Now it's up to us to train them so that penalties are the same in every game. I think we need to be clear that it's impossible for every crew to get every call right. But we need to be sure that going into the game every official's definition of a penalty is the same. Judgment may overshadow that at times, but I know our guys will try to do it. We're going to win the battle.

We've got assets that we bring to the table that no one else has. That allows us to be able to compete in a world where at first blush people say it's impossible for independents to come in and survive, much less sustain, and be around for long periods of time.

I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

We want to thank the officials organization. We get a really good group of core officials to help with the meet. It would be impossible to host the meet without the support that we have from the community.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

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

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

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

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

It is impossible for a cyclops to wink.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.

You must act as if it's impossible to fail.

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

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.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

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

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

We were disappointed, naturally, because of the very small, low turnout in many areas, ... It made it impossible for us to be represented on the National Assembly.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

The fact is, you can get lost in the statistics, and I think a lot of people will be surprised by the Linux vulnerability numbers. But it's impossible to write perfectly secure software that's also functional.

The reality is the home improvement business is dominated by a very small number of very large national chains, it had really become impossible to compete successfully, but also to grow our business.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

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

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

Happiness is impossible without gratitude.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.