Impossibility Quotes - Page 2

• And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

  George Colman the Elder

  Impossible

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Impossible

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• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Courage, Organization, Simplicity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• 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.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

  "Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.

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• Hell is the impossibility of reason.

  Oliver Stone

  Hell, Reason

  Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle (1987). “Oliver Stone's Platoon & Salvador”, Vintage

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• Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Plot, Poet

  'Poetics' ch. 24, 1460a

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• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Paper, Pounds, Impossible

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• Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Positivity, Today

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

  George Santayana

  Motivational, Perseverance, Courage

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

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• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Perseverance, Motivation, Fear

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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.

  Tertullian

  States

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• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

  Charles Wesley

  Faith, Religious, Laughing

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.352, Ravenio Books

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• For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Impossible, Believer, Limitation

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• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life And Love, Creativity, Impossible Things

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• 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.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

  Douglas Adams

  Integrity, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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