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Quotes About Impossibility

The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.
~ Unknown
Alf Todd, said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
~ Wodehouse
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
~ Woody Allen
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
~ Yann Martel
The night that wouldn't, and wouldn't, and wouldn't come, that was impossible. And her love that now was impossible—that was dry the way the fever of someone who doesn't sweat was love without opium or morphine. And "I love you" was a splinter you couldn't remove with tweezers. A splinter buried in the toughest part of the sole of your foot.
~ Clarice Lispector
A God possessed of free will is lesser than a God with a single law. In the same way that a concept is all the more true when it need not transform itself when faced with every individual case. God's perfection is proven more by the impossibility of miracles than the possibility.
~ Clarice Lispector
Y cuando pienso que no existe otro igual al mío en este mundo siento un susto alegre. Y nunca lo habrá. Nunca es lo imposible. [...] ¿Qué hay entre nunca y siempre que los une tan indirectamente e íntimamente?
~ Clarice Lispector
Nesse dia, pois, ele conheceu uma das raras formas de estabilidade: A estabilidade do desejo irrealizável, a estabilidade do ideal inatingível
~ Clarice Lispector
To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,
~ Clive James
I have found the title of the book as impossible to forget as the poems in it were impossible to remember.
~ Clive James
All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.
~ Hilary Putnam
It turns out birds can't really buy pizza, even if they're enchanted.
~ Holly Black
The idea that I can untangle everything seems as impossible as spinning straw in to gold, but each night I stay awake until the sun is high in the sky, trying my hardest to do just that.
~ Holly Black
I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees
~ Homer Simpson
The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded vanity of the many induced a thirst for Equality; though, as the most ardent innovator will some day discover, Equality is an impossibility.
~ Honore de Balzac
I have all the while maintained that in so far as it should be insisted that there was an equality between the white and black races that should produce a perfect social and political equality, it was an impossibility.
~ Unknown
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.
~ Jennifer Aniston
My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.
~ Mark Leyner
What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.
~ Rush Limbaugh
What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.
~ Unknown
There are two omnipotences with Him: 'With God all things are possible": "All things are possible to him that believeth.
~ Vance Havner
Indeed, even with unlimited resources it is nigh on impossible to prove a negative. How
~ Unknown