Quotes About Impossible

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.

the religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible

Faith of that sort—the sort that can stand up at least for a while in a confrontation with reason—is now plainly impossible.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

It is our destiny to attempt the impossible, to accomplish great deeds regardless of fear. It is our responsibility to the future.

They've planned for every possible way out of here." But not , I thought, the impossible ways.

Notre destin est de rendre possible l'impossible, d'accomplir de hauts faits en méprisant la peur.

Y cuando vives cultivando esperanzas imposibles, ya eres un perdedor. Y cuando te das cuenta, te hundes.

Much as they hated the idea, it was impossible to disarm in the face of Communist imperialism. America had to be able at all times to convince the Soviet leaders that they could not win a war.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.

La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.

I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to.

Bad things are happening, Madame. Impossible things. I trained to be a soldier, to fight for my country and make my family proud. It was an honorable choice. What will be thought of us upon our return? What will be thought of me?

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear it. Strange recognition, unexpected belonging…impossible knowing…

I won't feel. . . But that was impossible. She couldn't help feeling.

Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn't know how to break, and it broke her instead. Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.

There was a word from a myth: sathaz . It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.

It's grief," said Akiva. "It's rage. It makes us into the thing we despise." And he thought, And I was the thing you despised. Am I still? "Its the fuel for everything our people have done to each other since the beginning. That's what makes peace seem impossible. How can you blame someone for wanting to kill the killer of their loved ones? How can you fault people for what they do in grief?

Here was the impossible, and it was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it flayed open his chest to show that his heart, numb for so long, was still vital and beating . . . just so it could be ripped out again, after all these years?