Impossible Quotes - page 3

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. (Margaret Mead)
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. View quote
William Saroyan
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. View quote
Richard Bach
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. View quote
Woody Allen
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. View quote
James Baldwin
People who speak Belarusian can not do anything except talk on it, because it is impossible to express anything great in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world. Russian and English. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. View quote
Leon Trotsky
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. (Rex Stout)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. View quote
Václav Havel
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. View quote
William Faulkner
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. View quote
Douglas Adams
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. View quote
Lewis Mumford
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. (Rahul Dravid)
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels. View quote
Francisco Goya
Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts! View quote
Murray Leinster
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