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Quotes About Impossible

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~ Saint Augustine
Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.
~ Judith Love Cohen
They say miracles are past.
~ William Shakespeare
'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
~ Florentijn Hofman
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it out week to week in television, it's impossible.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
~ Andrew Weil
Many experts considered its erection an impossible feat.
~ Ross King
Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one small woman, and you were looking up at an enormous edifice, towering and monolithic, but what you wrote made the whole structure start to tremble and shudder, and finally, it all came down, thundering and crashing. It wasn't just because of your book, of course, but your book made it impossible for people to think of slavery in the old way.
~ Roxana Robinson
With this as the ideal, it's no wonder that so many people set impossible goals. When you detest what you see in the mirror, you need self-control not to start a crash diet. You need to remind yourself that diets typically work at first but fail miserably in the long run. To understand why, let's start with a strange phenomenon observed after the consumption of milkshakes in a laboratory.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.
~ RuPaul
Is the perfect murder ever possible?
~ Ruskin Bond
Never have I seen a man with a fighter plane do what Nishizawa would do with his zero. His acrobatics were all at once breathtaking, brilliant, totally unpredictable, impossible, and heard stirring to witness
~ Saburo sakai
Do your best to convince them. But act on your own, if justice requires it. If met with force, then fall back on acceptance and peaceability. Use the setback to practice other virtues. Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.
~ Marcus Aurelius
To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.  7.
~ Marcus Aurelius
17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are... Beyond reproach, I said. He nodded gravely. Impossible to tell whether or not he meant it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I refuse to say this. If it means I will have to forgive Mrs. Smeath or else go to Hell when I die, I'm ready to go. Jesus must have known how hard it is to forgive, that was why he put this in. He was always putting in things that were impossible to do really, such as giving away all your money.
~ Margaret Atwood
All she wants is a miracle, because anything else is hopeless.
~ Margaret Atwood
And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
~ Margaret Mitchell
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
~ Lewis Mumford
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
~ Queen Elizabeth II