Quotes About Impossibility

What is surely impossible is that a theoretical physicist, given unlimited computing power, should deduce from the laws of physics that a certain complex structure is aware of its own existence.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

Yours till submarines have screen doors.

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility." BERTRAND RUSSELL Power

In my dream, I am saying all of this in French, though I know that this is impossible. But in my dream, cruelty greases my tongue and I am undeniably fluent.

he felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.

Where are they going? Alpha Centauri. That's impossible. Very likely. But that's where they're going. Why? It's less impossible than here.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Always wanting the impossible and left with the possible in his minimal existence, the individual always find himself in the lowest depths of dissatisfaction. Nevertheless he always manages to create another life situation for himself, probably because he really loves life, just as it is. We always crave something other than we can have, than we have, other than what is suitable for us, and so we're unhappy.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

ce que nous appelons la douleur n'est peut-être pas tant le regret que nous éprouvons de cette impossibilité de voir les morts revenir à la vie que notre impuissance à le souhaiter.

e se gli accadeva di sbagliar strada, ciò era perchè per alcuni uomini non esiste una strada giusta. A chi gli chiedeva che cosa intendesse fare nel mondo, dava risposte contraddittorie, perchè, come soleva dire (ed anche questo l'aveva già annotato)m egli portava in sè la possibilità per mille modi di esistenza, insieme alla segreta consapevolezza che, in fondo si trattava di altrettante impossibilità.

What was "walking on water," if it wasn't Bible talk for surfing?

Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

Economists who looked at the real consequences of a centrally planned economy came to a very different conclusion: that there are too many economic relationships, and it is impossible to take them all into account and carefully coordinate them.

momento que era imposible que su hija se hubiese suicidado. Y sentía curiosidad por saber qué

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Porque não é possível, pura e simplesmente. É menos possível que encontrar uma agulha numa fábrica de agulhas. É menos possível que encontrar uma estrela solitária no universo. É menos possível que encontrar, entre tantos milhões que existem no mundo, a pessoa que podemos amar.

You can't lost what you never had.

Era cierto, no existían los milagros pequeños.