Quotes About Impossibility

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

But this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself:

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

Well, why not? My dream woman has always been been unavailable to me. What difference does a mere three-quarters of a century make?

Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.

After you reach the number impossible , there's no point in counting.

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

You may have had so many failures at changing the way you eat or exercise or think or act that the possibility of lasting change feels like an unreachable goal. Well, to be honest with you, it probably will be — unless you plug into God's power. What is impossible from a human standpoint is easy to God. With God, today's impossibility is tomorrow's miracle.

The world no longer shone, but it was very bright ... Strange world! Impossible world!

It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They

She knew she was not going to sleep, as surely as she knew she was not going to fly out of the window.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

They say miracles are past.

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Med mindre Frøkenen har oppfunnet en tirsdag som faller på en mandag, kan jeg ikke hjelpe henne.

Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?