Impossibility Quotes

381 quotes by 313 authors

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than… — Carl Flesch
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. — Geena Davis
The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility… — Anne Bogart
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities. — Gilles Deleuze
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility. — Madeleine L'Engle
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
Hell is the impossibility of reason. — Oliver Stone
Without risk, faith is an impossibility. — Soren Kierkegaard
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can… — Thomas a Kempis
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless… — Grenville Kleiser
The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand. — David Foster Wallace
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and… — Victor C. Ferkiss
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… — Hafez
We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down… — Calvin Miller
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. — Robert Breault

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