Impossible Quotes
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
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I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
Chad Harbach
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You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots - that's impossible - but I am trying.
Mohamed Salah
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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
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The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.
William A. Dembski
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
Rebecca Makkai
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Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
William Shatner
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Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.
Northrop Frye
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Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
George Foreman
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
William P. Young
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
Jasper Fforde
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If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.
Reinhard Bonnke
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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
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It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
Tertullian
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Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Lewis Carroll
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
Terence McKenna
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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
Carol Moseley Braun
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Love can sometimes achieve the impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
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Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.
William Hope Hodgson