Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2623 authors
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call…
— Wallace Stegner
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be…
— Victor Hugo
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Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense†told them…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's…
— Richard P. Feynman
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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an…
— C.S. Lewis
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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
— Romain Rolland
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew…
— Ilona Andrews
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Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
— Kristin Cashore
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Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature
— Aesop
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after…
— Holly Black
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Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most…
— Allison Pearson
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She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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You’re dangerous,†he says. “Why?†“Because you make me believe in the impossible
— Simone Elkeles
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When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block,…
— Henry Ford
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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent…
— Greg Mortenson
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
— George Orwell
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This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know…
— Paulo Coelho
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