Quotes About Impossible

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

He also advocated Archbold's ouster, but Senior thought it impossible to fire Archbold in the midst of the antitrust suit.

Helmsworth said, "Ma'am, nothing was impossible. It was the Cold War. It was a kind of madness. One time they sewed a microphone and a transmitter in a cat's neck, with a thin antenna threaded through inside its spine and up its tail. They were going to train it to wander into the Russian Embassy compound and pick up loose talk. Its first day on the job it was run over by a car. Nothing was impossible and everything went wrong sooner or later." Neagley

Nietzsche's criticism can be reduced to one proposition: modern man has been trying to preserve biblical morality while abandoning biblical faith. That is impossible.

It would not go away because it was my thought. It is not death that is terrible, but the knowledge of it: it would be utterly impossible to live if a man could know exactly and definitely the day and hour of his death.

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.

No se pueden creer las cosas imposibles! —Será porque no lo has intentado—le dijo la Reina—. Cuando yo tenía tu edad, lo intentaba media hora cada día... A la hora del desayuno a veces ya me había creído seis cosas imposibles.

so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

No hay quien crea lo que es imposible. -A mi juicio es que te falta el hábito -dijo la Reina-. Cuando yo tenía tu edad, lo practicaba siempre media hora diaria. A veces, llegué incluso a creer en seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno.

and when she (went back1) to the table2 for it, she found she could5 (not possibly3) reach4 it: Sie ging1a zum Tisch2 zurück1b, um es zu holen, sah aber, daß sie es unmöglich3 erreichen4 konnte5

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.

Without papers it was simply impossible to move from a hostile France across a hostile Spain and a not exactly sympathetic Portugal and thence reach an overseas country that was itself fussily bureaucratic.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

Lo faceva nella luce di una felicità strana, che non aveva mai provato, e che pure, le parve, aveva portato con sé per anni, aspettandola. Le sembrò impossibile essere riuscita a fare altro, in tutto quel tempo, che custodirla e nasconderla.

She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate. . . to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with.

Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird one against the disappointments of life, rather than make one aware that our attempts to subdue the pain of unrequited love - of impossible love, of love that we are best to put away and not to think about - tended not to work, and only made the wounds of love more painful.

He said that it should be on the basis of need. People who couldn't come up with a good reason to drive would not be allocated a licence. They would have to use public transport." Ulf sighed. This was typical of the Moderate Extremists: an impossible policy, dressed up in Utopian language, and destined—if not actually calculated—to antagonise at least one large segment of the population.