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Quotes About Impossible

This isn't a ride you can take again, but one, I'm guessing, that is simply impossible to get off.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Once its done, it doesn't seem IMPOSSIBLE. One can Acquire anything with Knowledge and learning. One should not dream about success, one should work for it. only secret to success is determination.
~ Scholar Talks
It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others.
~ Scot McKnight
And I correct you again. Difficult. 'Difficult' and 'impossible' are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.
~ Scott Lynch
It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.
~ Wayne Dyer
The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.
~ Guillaume Musso
A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
~ Lewis Carroll
Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
~ Maya Angelou
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
~ Meg Cabot
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~ Mark Twain
What an ass you are!" Satan said. "Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
What an ass you are! he said. Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane.
~ Mark Twain
Long, long before the missionaries braved a thousand privations to come and make them permanently miserable by telling them how beautiful and how blissful a place heaven is, and how nearly impossible it is to get there.
~ Mark Twain
It was a nice dream, and an impossible one.
~ Markus Zusak
They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible.
~ Markus Zusak
war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder.
~ Markus Zusak
Yes, but that's what grief often does: turns something impossible into something possible. Turns something unpreventable into the preventable.
~ Martha Grimes
The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust
~ Martin Heidegger
But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!
~ Marvin Minsky
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
~ Arundhati Roy
No one pitied him as he wished to be pitied," writes Tolstoy. "At certain moments after prolonged suffering he wished most of all (though he would have been ashamed to confess it) for someone to pity him as a sick child is pitied. He longed to be petted and comforted. He knew he was an important functionary, that he had a beard turning grey, and that therefore what he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it.
~ Atul Gawande
Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.
~ Audre Lorde
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
~ Ayn Rand
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.
~ Ayn Rand