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Quotes About Impossibility

Jesus's rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the first century did not rise from the grave any more than they do now, in the twenty-first century.
~ Eric Metaxas
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
~ beecher henry ward x
no matter what any poet did, the poems would constitute screens on which readers could project their own desperate belief in the possibility of poetic experience, whatever that might be, or afford them the opportunity to mourn its impossibility.
~ Ben Lerner
In Hindi film industry, the maximum one can do is try and make a film like 'Badhaai Ho' or 'Andhadhun,' but if I want to make something of the level of 'Kanchivaram' it is impossible. If I will make that kind a film, it will have no traction.
~ Priyadarshan
Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead.
~ Gillian Flynn
E perchè piace vincere, come mi piace vincere nel mio lavoro. Dimostrare che si può fare, che si può riuscire in qualcosa di utile anche quando sembra impossibile, quando le porte sembrano tutte chiuse. Accettare la sfida, misurarsi con le difficoltà.
~ Gino Strada
In order to produce it [an infinite series] we would need an infinitely long blackboard, an infinite supply of chalk, and an infinite length of time. We may be censured as too cruel for trying to crush so high a flight of the spirit by such a homely objection; but this is no answer.
~ Gottlob Frege
He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.
~ Graham Greene
Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it?
~ Gregory Benford
of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.
~ Peter Steele
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
~ Rebecca Traister
diagrammed the motor in the sand while his friend watched, unsure of what to think. After all, such a machine was theoretically impossible. In fact, seven years earlier, his professor at a college in Austria ridiculed him for suggesting that direct current generators could
~ Sean Patrick
Everything is possible and nothing is not possible except possibly the impossible.
~ Shannon Hale
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Lo que uno siente hacia los muertos, pensó, se basa siempre en la imposibilidad de toda acción.
~ Ayn Rand
El propósito de la filosofía no es el de buscar el conocimiento, sino el de demostrar que dicho conocimiento es imposible para el hombre.
~ Ayn Rand
In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
~ Anita Brookner
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
~ Gregory Corso
Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.
~ Philippos Syrigos
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
~ Drew Barrymore
Now, strict logicians regard self-deception as an impossibility. They cannot understand how it is possible for a person to believe one thing and its opposite simultaneously. Logicians are not psychologists,
~ Jordan B. Peterson
impossible to walk across the street,
~ Jordan Ellenberg