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Quotes About Impossible

How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciples-- these disciples, such men as these!--to try and become the light of the world! No, they are already the light, and the call has made them so.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Believers] do not believe in people or in the good in people that ultimately must triumph; they also do not believe in the church in its human power. Rather, believers believe solely in God, who creates and does the impossible, who creates life out of death, who has called the dying church to life against and in spite of us and through us. But God does it alone.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.
~ Dillon Burroughs
A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.
~ Dirk Wittenborn
Only the impossible lasts forever, with time, it is made accessible. Robin's love and mine was always impossible, and loving each other, we no longer love. Yet we love each other like death.
~ Djuna Barnes
Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible.
~ Djuna Barnes
According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly.
~ Doctor Who
understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.
~ Don Richardson
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
~ John Stott
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
~ Jeremy Renner
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
~ Jeremy Renner
These indignities underscore a larger question: When do impossible choices start to tear people—a society—apart?
~ Jessica Bruder
In his dispatches Messersmith reprised one theme again and again: how impossible it was for casual visitors to understand what was really happening in this new Germany. "The Americans coming to Germany will find themselves surrounded by influences of the Government and their time so taken up by pleasant entertainment, that they will have little opportunity to learn what the real situation is.
~ Erik Larson
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
~ Erik Larson
Tom," Ara said. "All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were Impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Now that you have ceased to be careful of yourself I must ask you to be, please. For us and for the ship.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.
~ Ernest Hemingway
went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. She said she wanted to hear me go to confession, but I told her that not only was it impossible but it was not as interesting as it sounded, and, besides, it would be in a language she did not know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
~ Ernest Hemingway
The temperature was not strikingly low as temperatures go down here, but the terrific winds penetrate the flimsy fabric of our fragile tents and create so much draught that it is impossible to keep warm within. At supper last night our drinking-water froze over in the tin in the tent before we could drink it. It is curious how thirsty we all are.
~ Ernest Shackleton
On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible.
~ Ethan Rarick
On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible. Edwin
~ Ethan Rarick
Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.
~ Andrew Lang
Andy replied with an answer that I did not expect: "CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicators of bad news." "Why?" I asked him. He answered in the style resonant of his entire book: "In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.
~ Andrew S. Grove
Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski