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Quotes About Impossibility

De ti se saca un pescador lo mismo que del culo de una cabra una trompeta.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Kocha si? to, czym si? nigdy nie b?dzie.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
~ Anita Brookner
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
~ Paul Arden
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
~ Lee De Forest
I've heard you're good, but I don't think even you can sue a dead man.
~ Robert Dugoni
An Infinite personality is an infinite impossibility
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
As Aristotle tells us: "For the purposes of [story] a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
~ Robert McKee
a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
~ Robert McKee
Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign wretchedness of man, used by Pascal.
~ Roland Barthes
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
~ Lee Child
I met Summer in the MP motor pool. She was bright and full of energy but we didn't talk. There was nothing to say, except that the task we had set for ourselves was impossible. And I guessed neither of us wanted to confirm that out loud. So we didn't speak. We just picked a Humvee at random and headed out. I drove, for a change, the same three-minute journey I had driven thirty-some hours before.
~ Lee Child
A small, sad smile spread across the woman's face. "I would love to go visit Dendoncker. Believe me. I'd be there in a heartbeat. But we can't. It's impossible." "No such thing as impossible. Just inadequate preparation.
~ Lee Child
Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
~ Lewis Carroll
How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.
~ Lewis Carroll
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.
~ Lewis Carroll
This is impossible, Only if you believe it is.
~ Lewis Carroll
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.
~ Liam O'Flaherty
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
~ Albert Einstein
È uno strano dolore... morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Es un dolor extraño. [...] Morir de nostalgia por algo que no vivirás nunca (p.102)
~ Alessandro Baricco
Mourir de nostalgie pour quelque chose que tu ne vivras jamais.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility.
~ Alexandre Dumas