Impossible famous quotes

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.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Writing #Impossible #Eating

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#War #Impossible

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
-- Aaron Spelling

#Impossible #Episodes #Ends

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
-- Abbi Glines

#Hurt #Impossible #Protect

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Littles #Dirt #Impossible

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Heart #World #Impossible

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
-- Adam Khoo

#Believe #People #Impossible

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
-- Adam Young

#Giving Up #Fighting #Impossible

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
-- Agatha Christie

#Inspirational #Life #Impossible

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
-- Agatha Christie

#Impossible #Arise #Conversation

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

#Inspirational #Mind #Impossible

Only the impossible is worth doing.
-- Akong Rinpoche

#Impossible

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.
-- Al Franken

#Secret #Impossible #Opinion

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
-- Al Gore

#Ideas #Impossible #Form

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
-- Alan Ball

#Impossible #Stills #Fondness

...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.
-- Alan Bennett

#Reading #Writing #Impossible

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

#Expectations #Progress #Impossible

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
-- Albert Brooks

#Jobs #Acting #Impossible

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
-- Albert Camus

#Impossible #Logic #Bitter

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
-- Albert Camus

#World #Impossible #This World

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
-- Albert Camus

#Impossible #Turns

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
-- Albert Camus

#Love #Principles #Impossible

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
-- Albert Camus

#Forgiveness #Republic #Impossible

When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
-- Albert Einstein

#Six #Defining #Impossible

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
-- Albert Ellis

#Hate #Upset #Impossible

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

#Impossible #Terrible

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.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Art #Quality #Impossible

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Vision #Way #Impossible

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Impossible

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
-- Albie Sachs

#Revolution #Impossible #Inevitable

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Impossible #Wilderness #Creation

For some heroes, nothing is impossible
-- Alethea Kontis

#Hero #Impossible #Nothing Is Impossible

Some things are impossible.
-- Alex Van Halen

#Impossible #Impossibility

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Laughter #Pain #Impossible

These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Mean #May #Impossible

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Cities #Genius #Impossible

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
-- Alexander Whyte

#Prayer #Impossible #Kind

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Believe #People #Impossible

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.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Mind #Liberty #Impossible

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
-- Alfred Nobel

#War #Writing #Impossible

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

#Writing #Biographies #Impossible

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.
-- Alistair Begg

#Impossible #Serving God

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
-- Allison Pearson

#Children #Answers #Impossible

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
-- Amanda Ripley

#Survival #Impossible #Arcs

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
-- Amar Bose

#Thinking #Impossible #Programming

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
-- Ambrose

#Saint #Impossible #Difficult

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Impossible #Lord #Given

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
-- Amy Grant

#Insomnia #Experience #Impossible

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Impossible #Easy #Behavior

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.
-- Anatoli Boukreev

#Thinking #Impossible #Fischer

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
-- Anaxagoras

#Science #Atoms #Impossible

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.
-- Anderson Silva

#Impossible #Achieve #Capable

Things will happen. But you have to believe that nothing is impossible.
-- Anderson Silva

#Believe #Mma #Impossible

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
-- Andre Breton

#Looks #Firsts #Impossible

It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.
-- Andre Siegfried

#Thinking #France #Impossible

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.
-- Andrei Grechko

#Military #Men #Impossible

It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
-- Andrew Ryan

#Sea #Impossible #Rapture

A man has a choice.. I chose.. the impossible!
-- Andrew Ryan

#Men #Choices #Impossible

It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel is one window into the experience, and the game is another. They complement each other perfectly,
-- Andy McNab

#War #Games #Impossible

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

#Impossible #Sometimes #Time Love

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.
-- Anna Paquin

#World #Crowds #Impossible

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Impossible

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Religious #Soul #Impossible

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Color #Credit #Impossible

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Impossible #Language #Needed

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Practice #Impossible #Theory

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
-- Antonio Tabucchi

#Fundamentals #Impossible #Values

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
-- Aristophanes

#Impossible #Poet

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
-- Aristotle

#Long #Impossible #Argument

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Requirements #Impossible

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
-- Aristotle

#Book #Fiction #Impossible

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.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Careers #Challenges #Impossible

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.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Impossible #Failing #Made

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

#People #Trying #Impossible

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

#Law #Justice #Impossible

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

#Motivational #Matter #Impossible

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

#Perfect #Impossible #Physics

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Finding Happiness #Impossible #Difficult

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

#Dream #Venice #Impossible

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

#Impossible #Unthinkable #Thinkable

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
-- Asger Jorn

#Creative #Unexpected #Impossible

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

#Impossible #Failing

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

#Names #Impossible #Difficult

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

#Levels #Impossible #Attempting

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

#Impossible #Found

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos

#Impossible #Disappear #Form

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
-- Ayn Rand

#Liberty #Impossible #Monopoly

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
-- Ayn Rand

#Philosophy #Impossible #Longing

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Education #World #Impossible

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
-- B. J. Novak

#Impossible #Daydreaming #Easy

It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act...
-- Balfour Stewart

#Taken #Impossible #Cases

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.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Fields #Impossible #Making Money

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Impossible

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.
-- Barnett Newman

#Might #Impossible #Wells

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Impossible #Maxims

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
-- Barry Commoner

#Zero #Impossible #Approach

Creativity is the art of the impossible
-- Ben Okri

#Art #Creativity #Impossible

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.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Men #Firsts #Impossible

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
-- Benmont Tench

#Sound #Impossible #Jimmy

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
-- Bernard Crick

#Government #Impossible