Impossible Quotes

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Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission. — George W. Bush
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? — William Westmoreland
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. — Elias Canetti
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only… — Nelson Algren
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. — James Anthony Froude
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men… — Michel de Montaigne
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. — Roald Dahl
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. — John Foster Dulles
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations. — Erica Jong
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult… — Thomas Paine
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. — J.R.R. Tolkien
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved… — Arthur C. Clarke
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the… — Ted Lindsay
Finding clothes in the South was impossible. — Justin Townes Earle
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison

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