Impossible Quotes

• It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Art
  • Science
  • Fall

• “First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on."

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Law
  • Quest
  • Go On

• I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Time
  • Firsts

• The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Know
  • Understand
  • Impossible

• Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Impossible
  • Consider
  • New Look

• To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Impossible
  • Bleak

• The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Impossible
  • Improbable
  • Believable

• Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Enemy

• Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Break
  • Negative
  • Cry

• It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Good
  • Country
  • War

• There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Chance
  • Exists
  • Borders

• It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Happy
  • Help

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

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Biographies

• I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Children
  • Hatred
  • Messages

• Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Justice
  • Eye
  • Doe

• It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

  

  George Washington
  • Universe
  • Inspiration
  • Creation

• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  

  William Empson
  • Remember
  • Reason
  • Proust

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

  

  Matthew West
  • Helping
  • Shows
  • Unlovable

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

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Improbable

• I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Calm
  • Ideal
  • Managers

• Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Impossible

• What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Impossible
  • Next

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