Impossible Quotes

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It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas… — Newt Gingrich
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. — Claude Monet
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather. — Claude Monet
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to… — Claude Monet
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business… — Claude Monet
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what… — Andre Breton
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. — Wendell Phillips
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in… — Jorge Luis Borges
To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be. — Brian Tracy
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. — Jean Piaget
A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something… — Leonard Cohen
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a… — Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as… — Ludwig von Mises
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. — Paul Dickson
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. — Francis Picabia
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead… — Paul Klee

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