Quotes About Impossibility

the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Don't deal in the possibilities of the possibility.

Todas estas conversaciones eran mentiras basadas en un deseo único e imposible: parecer normales. O, por lo menos, lo bastante normales como para que nos dejaran volver a casa.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

The day was so lovely that, to Flora, it seemed possible to leave only if it was impossible to stay. She tried to imagine leaving. She imagined that her body was asking her to leave. She

How old am I? Old enough to know it's impossible to change the thinking of fools, but young and foolish enough to keep on trying.

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

The covenant of grace could no more have been made by man, than he can form a bow in the clouds.

El hombre salió de un puñado de barro y agua. ¿Por qué una mujer no habría de estar hecha de rocío, vapores terrestres y rayos de luz, de los condensados residuos de un arco iris? ¿Dónde reside lo posible...? ¿Dónde lo imposible?

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

The clean, clear ending that society keeps looking for is impossible to find.

The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must be either true or false... Lucy is lying, or she is crazy, or she is telling the truth. She can't be some combination, and she can't be none of those things... The laws of logic dictate that she must be one of them... Notice how practical common sense about the suposed impossibility of other worlds doesn't come into the equation.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Then the girl spoke to the child. She told him she'd rather it remain this way between them. That she'd rather their story not move from this place, even if the child didn't understand her; that it remain in this desire, even if that meant she put herself to death. Not a real death, mind you, but a dead death, where you don't hurt, where you're never sad, you're never punished, nothing. She said, 'It should be completely impossible.' She said, 'It should be desperate.

Que no la conocerá nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguirá.

The only times she did speak was to say how impossible it was for her to express how boring and long it was, how interminable it was, to be Lol Stein. They asked her to try and pull herself together. She didn't understand why she should, she said. The difficulty she experienced in searching for a single word seemed insurmountable. She acted as though she expected nothing further from life.

Forse l'impossibilità di continuare ad esprimersi e a modificarsi con nuove azioni costituisce la sola differenza tra l'esser morti e l'esser vivi.

I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.