Quotes About Impossibility

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Pigs might fly, but they're unlikely birds.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Now the question is, what could conceivably transform an event that is naturally impossible into a real historical event? Clearly, the answer is the personal God of theism. For if a transcendent, personal God exists, then he could cause events in the universe that could not be produced by causes within the universe.

For example, you cannot predict what numbers will come up on a fair (i.e. unbiased) roulette wheel. But if you understand what it is in the wheel's design and operation that makes it fair, then you can explain why predicting the numbers is impossible.

Intentaba pensar en los silencios entre segundo y segundo, cosa tan imposible como caminar entre las gotas de agua en un día lluvioso.

Sex and desire is the one realm of life where justice is not only impossible, it's inconceivable.

At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.

We serve a God that does His greatest works when it becomes impossible for us.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]