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Quotes About Impossibility

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
~ H. L. Mencken
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
~ George Eliot
TelaÅŸla uykunun inine geri dönsem de rüyaya tekrar giremiyor, aÄŸz?m? suland?ran ekmeÄŸin tad?na bakam?yorum. -Barbarlar? Beklerken
~ J. M. Coetzee
I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.
~ J.D. Robb
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.
~ J.R. Ward
Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.
~ J.R. Ward
Yo, Rapunzel, you going to let down your frickin' hair, there?
~ J.R. Ward
I had a strange vision as we drove along seeing in the clouds above the Alamogordo mountains the words as if imprinted in the sky: "This Is the Impossibility of the Existence of Anything
~ Jack Kerouac
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
~ Francisco Goya
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
~ Aeschylus
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
~ Jules Verne
Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.
~ Neil Boyd
It's like asking what is south of the South Pole
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
He was also perpetually developing configurations of straight lines that deceive the viewer in their apparent readability as plastic forms, with walls and openings, only to become something entirely different as we look at them. Physical impossibility in the guise of the plausible was his elixir.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
That life isn't fair? Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Getting a rise out of him was like trying to give a handjob to a parking meter: you were going to end up frustrated and exhausted long before a cop came along to haul you away.
~ Christopher Moore
She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.
~ Trudi Canavan
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
~ Umberto Eco
Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.
~ Umberto Eco
Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole è fra queste.
~ Victor Hugo