Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2623 authors
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It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.
— Joshua Reynolds
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Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer…
— Walter Sickert
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I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work,…
— Barnett Newman
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Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched…
— Fridtjof Nansen
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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the…
— Ben Kingsley
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For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the…
— David Cronenberg
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We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the…
— Petra Kelly
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Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
— David Souter
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It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances…
— Clive Davis
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It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
— Howard Hodgkin
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We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas…
— Nancy Keenan
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I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
— John Charles Polanyi
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Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we…
— Vladimir Putin
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It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to…
— Charles Rangel
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The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.
— Mariano Rajoy
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I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South…
— Mark Sanford
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