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Quotes About Impossible

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
~ William Butler Yeats
Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan could have an identical twin; there could be kids who looked like his parents' childhood pictures. The bunk beds were impossible.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
It's impossible, Amy muttered. The lead? Nellie said, a baffled look spreading across her face. You havn't even heard it yet. The whole clue hunt, Dan corrected. It's useless. We can't win. Not the way we're supposed to. Why'd we even bother coming here?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Say that we're moving at the speed of light.… Impossible, of course, if you believe physicists. Which I don't, by the way. Physicists don't believe in wizards—a fact that I, being a wizard, find highly insulting. I have taken my revenge, therefore, by refusing to believe in physicists. What was the question?
~ Margaret Weis
What is happiness, after all, but the fleeting, transitory butterfly of an emotion that is impossible to catch and hold for long before it flies away.
~ Margaret Weis
Oh, I'd like to show you my gratitude, show you how ugly I am, how impossible it is to love me. I'd like to offer you that.
~ Marguerite Duras
el Espíritu Santo está dentro de nosotros para hacer lo imposible. Él hace por nosotros lo que solos no podemos hacer. Nos presta Su fuerza, y cuando Su mente se une con la nuestra, el pensamiento del ego desaparece.
~ Marianne Williamson
in 1068, it would have already been impossible for Hansel and Gretel to walk more than four miles through any English wood without bursting back out into open fields. The landscape of fairy tales is symbolic: The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.
~ Marina Warner
Naturalmente, la comparación de lo ocurrido a Sartre en este libro con lo que le ocurrió a Flaubert en el último que escribió es obligatoria. ¿Cabe un parecido mayor, un fracaso tan igualmente admirable y por razones tan idénticas como el de L'Idiot de la famille y Bouvard et Pécuchet? Ambas son tentativas imposibles, empresas destinadas a fracasar porque ambas se habían fijado de antemano una meta inalcanzable, estaban
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It was an early example of the power of persuasion and unstinting belief that Mercury would apply to himself and his band mates in Queen. Nothing was impossible, he maintained, if you put your mind to it.
~ Mark Blake
Glauben ist das Vertrauen ins Unmögliche.
~ Mark Haddon
Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.
~ Mark Helprin
It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.
~ Anthony Powell
Belief in limits creates limited people. The key is to let go of those limitations and operate from a higher set of resources. The leaders in our culture are the people who see the possibilities, who can go into a desert and see a garden. Impossible?
~ Anthony Robbins
Everything he said was right,' the lieutenant replied. 'But don't forget one thing. When a war of two world outlooks is going on, it is impossible to persuade enemy soldiers by throwing words across the front lines.
~ Antony Beevor
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
~ Aristotle
For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.
~ Aristotle
It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration.
~ Aristotle
It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.
~ Aristotle
Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible
~ Arthur C. Clarke
La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Often we had no choice: we couldn't reform the whole world. And didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Didn't somebody once say 'Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke