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Quotes About Impossible

I alone with my undiscovered love, without heart, without tears, towards the skies' impossible roof with a huge sun to console me.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
There were many people, Brazilians included, who believed such a change was impossible. They saw Brazil as the incorrigible land of the jeitinho, the artful little trick for getting around the system. This word, and the concept behind it, were supposedly intractable parts of our national identity, the products of a society that took deep pride in flaunting the law.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
In the end, what gets people through a physical or emotional crisis is not new technology or medication. These things help, of course. But it's faith that gives you the strength to endure- faith that won't allow you to give up; faith that manifests itself in a ferocious determination to take the next step - the one that everyone says is impossible.
~ Bob Dole
One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.
~ Haruki Murakami
It is an amazing moment, when one goes from being grateful for what one has to longing for what is impossible.
~ Haven Kimmel
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
~ Cathy Guisewite
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
~ Alice McDermott
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
~ Pedro Almodovar
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
~ Karl Marx
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
~ Hans Hofmann
Love never disappears," he said calmly. "It's impossible. If it disappears it was never love," he said.
~ Sister Souljah
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Ezekiel chapter 37. The only need of Ezekiel was to be in the Spirit, and while he was in the Spirit it came to him to prophesy to the dry bones and say, "O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord" (Ezek. 37:4). As he prophesies according to the Lord's command he sees an "exceeding great army" rising up about him. The prophet obeyed God's command, and all we have to do is exactly this—obey God. What is impossible with man is possible with God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.
~ Socrates
This is impossible." "This what?" I clutch the collar of his shirt in my fingers. His face is so close l study the varying color of his eyes. For a long time, he says nothing. Stares at me in that way that makes me want to squirm. For a moment, it seems that his irises glow and the pupils shrink to slits. Then, he mutters, "A hunter in love with his prey
~ Sophie Jordan
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
~ South
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~ St. Augustine
Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
With secret envy Christine thought: If only I could go back to taking pleasure in such little things, instead of yearning for the impossible.
~ Stefan Zweig
Pero justo eso constituye el signo distintivo de una voluntad demoníaca, el transformar en realidad lo imposible.
~ Stefan Zweig
Once these girls from outside the city get a little taste of fame, or even, really, acceptance -- well, what they think is acceptance -- it's just impossible.
~ Stephanie Clifford
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.
~ Noam Chomsky