Impossibility Quotes
381 quotes by 313 authors
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
— Douglas Adams
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
— Ray Bradbury
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
— Anita Brookner
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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…
— Kirk Cameron
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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…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world…
— Dale Carnegie
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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
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental atheists will deny this by…
— Ray Comfort
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A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.
— Wes Fesler
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
— Aristotle
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.
— Deepak Chopra
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Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.
— Ron Brown
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and…
— Joseph Henry
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