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Quotes About Impossible

I love you. It's impossible, I know. But the sad part is that if I could change it I would choose not to because I'm afraid that I will never feel how I feel with you ever again.
~ Unknown
I have the strength to overcome the impossible. I have courage to stand for what I believe in. I have faith that everything will be okay.
~ Unknown
I am inspired by your presence in my life. It gives me the strength to think and to do the impossible. It's all because I love you and loving doesn't require simplicity because you're not simple, you're special.
~ Unknown
La presencia de Aquiles era como una china en el zapato, imposible de pasar por alto. Tenía la piel del color del aceite de oliva recién prensado y era suave como la madera pulida, sin las cicatrices y magulladuras de que estábamos cubiertos los demás.
~ Madeline Miller
There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.
~ Madonna
I know what I want is impossible. If I can make my language flat enough, exact enough, if I can rinse each sentence clean enough, like washing a stone over and over again in river water, if I can find the right perch or crevice from which to record everything, if I can give myself enough white space, maybe I could do it. I could tell you this story while walking out of this story. I could—it all could—just disappear.
~ Maggie Nelson
Because, says Emilia, there was a rumor about you. Someone swore that, when you were a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And the tiger didn't harm you, it let you stroke it. It was always said that you had charmed the beast, like an enchantress. Impossible, of course, but— Not impossible, says Lucrezia, not at all.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
As enlightenment increases, the desire to share it increases; but with this desire comes the realization that it is impossible to share the Real. Realization is an inward experience which can come only to those who have won it in their own right. It cannot be conferred.
~ Unknown
Soledat! Soledat! Soledat! Desconeguts en els quals fixar el nostre afany impossible durant les breus hores d'una nit, rostres que un moment semblaven preciosos però que tot seguit calia avorrir, contactes furtius i sense satisfacció en les cambres anònimes on, més que estimar-nos, ens prostituïem...
~ Unknown
St. Teresa of Ávila writes: "The devil gives us great desires so that we will avoid setting ourselves to the task at hand, serving our Lord in possible things, and instead be content with having desired the impossible.
~ Unknown
So vast, indeed, that it eventually proved impossible to administer from a single centre,
~ Unknown
Th' invention all admir'd, and each, how hee   To be th' inventer miss'd, so easie it seemd   Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought   Impossible: yet haply of thy Race   In future dayes, if Malice should abound,   Some one intent on mischief, or inspir'd   With dev'lish machination might devise   Like instrument to plague the Sons of men   For sin, on warr and mutual slaughter bent.
~ John Milton
A good writer always works at the impossible.
~ John Steinbeck
In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. For that reason, if the signs are not pretty strong in a particular direction, it must be some dark stranger, some wanderer from the outside world where such things happen.
~ John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. And if he is a writer wise enough to know it can't be done, then he is not a writer at all. A good writer always works at the impossible.
~ John Steinbeck
Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
~ Christopher Bond
I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.
~ Kirby Wright
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn't even imagine.
~ Unknown
Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.
~ Roald Dahl
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
~ Unknown
If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The greatest motivation in life is when someone puts the impossible before you, and you challenge the impossible against all odds.
~ Unknown