Impossible Quotes · Page 139

It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.

— Hazel Hawke

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

— Philip Sidney

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

— Hillary Clinton

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the…

— Alastair Campbell

I don't like it when people say something's impossible. Because the word itself implies; I'm possible

— Alexa Michalec

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have…

— Felix Dennis

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

— Howard Schultz

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

— Fredrik Bajer

While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.…

— Keith Gessen

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can…

— Dalai Lama

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have…

— Jean Monnet

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to…

— Romano Prodi

In the past, people could use their music because there are these bootlegs floating around that were supposedly public domain but they…

— George Ratliff

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in…

— Henry Winkler

In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no…

— Neal Shusterman

If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others…

— Ching Hai

Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two…

— Ronald Graham

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of…

— Archilochus

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even…

— Ada Lovelace

Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.…

— Rajneesh

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to…

— Kim Brooks

“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging…

— Mike Norton

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

— Gerry Lindgren

I prefer doing strong roles irrespective of duration, and it is almost impossible for me to take up a role that has…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism…

— Roy Innis

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of…

— Megan McArdle

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

— Daniel Goleman

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words…

— James Schuyler

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

— Martin O'Malley

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident…

— Emma Curtis Hopkins

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

— Greta Thunburg

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

— George Eliot

“For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”

— Neil Gaiman

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

— Alexandre Dumas

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

— Amy Grant

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry, but I can’t.” “I’d love to, but I’m afraid it’s impossible.” “Unfortunately, I can’t, but I hope you…

— Judith Martin

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I’ve thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were.”

— Laini Taylor