Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2791 authors
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There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an…
— Bill McKibben
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Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as…
— Harrison Schmitt
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
— Joseph J. Romm
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Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you…
— Leonard Peltier
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One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state…
— Lars Svendsen
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Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.
— Shahrukh Khan
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
— Erwin Rommel
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The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which…
— Erwin Rommel
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men]…
— H. L. Mencken
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The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the…
— Franz Kafka
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the…
— Gerard De Nerval
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort…
— Jane Goodall
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a…
— Eddie Heywood
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If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by…
— Stephen Hawking
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
— Quintilian
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We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate,…
— Paulo Coelho
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