Impossibility Quotes

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When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even… — Ernest Becker
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility. — Angus Buchan
'Impossible' is not a scientific term. — Vanna Bonta
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name… — Arno C. Gaebelein
Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles. — Robert H. Schuller
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your… — James Wolfe
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. — Democritus
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities. — Claes Oldenburg
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. — Elie Wiesel
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often… — Joseph Addison
Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can… — John Updike
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to… — John Updike
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some… — Agnes Repplier
Impossibility is a dictionary word. — Sri Chinmoy
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar

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