In this post, you will find great Impossible Quotes from famous people, such as Kristen Stewart, Cotton Mather, Tim Finn, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Trent Reznor. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
It’s impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.
Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.
We’ve never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It’s been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they’re always the enemy.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
I looked out into the audience, saw dozens of faces I knew well – LGBTQ folks, mostly – all avid comics readers and superhero fans and DC supporters, and it just hit me: Why was this so impossible? Why in the world can we not do a better job of representation of not just humanity, but also our own loyal audience?
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
I love that idea that if you know someone’s story, it’s impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I’m concerned.
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God.
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today‘s intelligence challenges.
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
I didn’t build Auntie Anne’s alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.
Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan – changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make – might reduce emissions by four tons a year.
Most people don’t even know what a trombone is. It’s not that popular as a front instrument… I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It’s a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder – and ultimately impossible to solve – with ever more people.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
While law enforcement officers are working hard in Illinois to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, they face a nearly impossible task because of weak gun laws in surrounding states.
And what ‘s impossible can’t be, And never, never comes to pass.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
I only want people around me who can do the impossible.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that’s impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
There are some fundamental values it’s impossible to be wrong about.
Now, it’s almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
I can’t be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it’s easier to win a libel suit.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn’t got enough money to do so.
It’s impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don’t know where you’re starting from.
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
It is certain because it is impossible.
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.
When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it’s somebody else‘s point of view, and it’s impossible for it to be yours.
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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 prefer doing strong roles irrespective of duration, and it is almost impossible for me to take up a role that has nothing much to contribute to the script.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Let me first say that I don’t think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.
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.
In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it’s always possible.
Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.
I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, ‘Oh yes, I’m hosting my own show.’
To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn’t reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn’t reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things… it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
It’s not impossible for a woman – a Black woman – to become President.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
So Bush certainly wasn’t the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he’s created a lot of disincentive. He’s created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and – above all – nothing seems impossible.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.
I don’t think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it’s like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that’s impossible.
For me, nothing is impossible.
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it’s impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
It’s impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes – and with it, the guilt.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
It’s impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
I’m impossible to direct. I couldn’t get myself to do anything.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
It’s really hard to make a living as a musician. It’s almost impossible.
Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it’s a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That’s close to impossible, but that doesn’t keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.
Isn’t one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it’s basically impossible to use text to show that.
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker‘s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Love without conversation is impossible.
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won‘t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
But you can’t exercise and be high. It’s impossible.
Despite Japan‘s desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
You cannot stage plays to make money. That’s quite impossible until our people start spending more on tickets.
Everyone knows Iker Casillas. We have all followed him being at the top level for so many years. What he has done for the national team is something impossible to equal. But I try and learn from him when we are there,and train the best I can.
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn’t just another game. It isn’t just another sport. It’s life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.
We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.
It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.
I have been a Christian all my life, but it’s impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.
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.
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Nothing is impossible.
Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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.
I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
I’m always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody’s head.
Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it’s very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.
What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it’s played by a virtuoso player, doesn’t mean it’s great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
It’s impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can’t fool the fans.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it’s got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
I do wish I could tell you my age but it’s impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it’s virtually impossible. It’s very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, ‘I did that!’
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama’s political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician – nay, human being – of our time.
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
It’s impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Any reasonable economist will tell you that it’s nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state’s job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Change always seems impossible until it’s inevitable.
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
We don’t know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It’s something the human mind can’t really grasp. It’s statistically impossible that there’s not life on other planets.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
I think that’s the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
I think it’s impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
It’s nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, ‘The Wine Advocate.’ There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It’s impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.
I don’t believe that many things are impossible to achieve so long as you put your mind to it and take the time to get it done.
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
It’s absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
It’s nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
It’s impossible to replace him. You will not find another Messi, but you can train a team without having the best in the world.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I’ll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it’s a form of expression that all I need is me. I don’t need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Nothing is impossible. No matter where you’re from.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
If you trade with someone and they are your biggest trading partner, it is impossible you don’t have trade issues.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.
Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
I want my soldiers – I mean artists – to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Once we truly grasp the message of the ‘New Testament‘, it is impossible to read the ‘Old Testament‘ again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
God makes the impossible possible. I believe in Him.
Although it’s difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend.
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.
It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.
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.
I feel like a tiger right now. There’s nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
I want to say this to all Filipinos: nothing is impossible.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Perfection is impossible, but you don’t stop aiming for it.
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don’t blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
I think legally we have to do ‘fun’ with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called ‘fun.’ We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we’re so impossible to Google-search.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
If it is indeed impossible – or at least very difficult – to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Mitt – what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he’s got a great view on China and how they’re trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
It’s really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.
I was a product of Andy Warhol‘s Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we’ve become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
It’s impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It’s not impossible.
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
I don’t believe actors who say they don’t bleed into their characters. It’s absolutely impossible not to.
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
I was a corporate hatchet man, and it’s impossible for me to turn that off. It’s this curse when I walk into businesses: ‘That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.’
Let’s get a couple of things straight. It hasn’t been years and years since I made a movie. I’m not coming back from the dead – I’ve just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it’s impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren’t that many good films made.
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
It has become impossible to forget ‘votes for women,’ just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
I find it’s impossible for me to read Proust.
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.
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy… but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would… but its just impossible to get to everyone.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It’s sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn’t the star.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.
I think there’s this misconception about vegans, that it’s impossible, and they’re crazy or whatever. But it’s not like that. You can be vegan and still be really chill.
Don’t be told something is impossible. There’s always a way.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.
Failure is impossible.
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it’s impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature – the urge to love and be loved – must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.
Well, no. I believe that it’s not at all impossible that some of the performances that I’ve heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.
You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all – and it’s impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don’t think the movie would work otherwise.
I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it’s almost impossible to start without that.
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
There’s lots about politics I don’t feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
When you’re surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it’s impossible not to have a smile on your face.
It’s impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that ‘Star Trek‘ became. It’s still almost impossible to imagine.
Scientists have proven that it’s impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don’t listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
It’s impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it’s physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself – well, I wouldn’t say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
I work on the motto that if something’s not impossible, there must be a way to do it.
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It’s impossible to do.
I think it’s impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
No matter what the role, you’re trying to do the impossible – make a living in show business.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it’s impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.
It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha – very real physical protection.
It’s sad when you can’t make everyone happy, though. It’s impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, ‘Maybe I can do it,’ but you know you can’t. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn’t get it right.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of few but nonetheless good films, it is almost impossible to produce a film without access to various European initiatives and funds. Creative Europe and its media program are essential for our film industry.
Any actor who is being honest will admit there’s always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It’s impossible not to have that.
The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.
Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I’ve done that. Yes, that works.
