Impossibility Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt, Franz Kafka, Stephanie Land, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Graydon Carter, John Wooden and many others.
Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything – a scientific impossibility. It couldn’t happen. So they redefine the word ‘nothing’ to mean ‘something,’ so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell’s stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.
Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover‘s most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover’s most venial sin.
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
The novel that’s contemporary in the sense of being wholly ‘of now’ is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the ‘now’ with which they begin will be defunct by the time they’re finished.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love’s endless twists and turns – and all love’s impossibilities.
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and … it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It’s not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many different stories from many different perspectives has something to do with me trying to deal with the impossibility of having a wide enough view to say anything really convincing on that scale.
When you do your best, there is no impossibility.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.
Rilla’s heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually transpires as part of the ongoing narrative is informed by it. In other words, try relocating the stories elsewhere, and what’s the effect? They almost immediately cease to exist.
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And what ‘s impossible can’t be, And never, never comes to pass.
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
However, when we shift our awareness or “frequency” from self-consciousness – where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside – to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when ‘my appetite for the absolute and for unity’ meets ‘the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.’
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn around and say “Watch me.”
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i’m convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.
It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can’t coincide.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. — Macon
Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Professor Hawking is heralded as ‘the genius of Britain,’ yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?
Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
If something’s not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Some things are impossible.
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.
Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
It always seems impossible until its done.