Impossible Quotes
4226 quotes by 2791 authors
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I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and…
— Philip O Ceallaigh
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be…
— Fran Lebowitz
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People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to…
— Ray Dalio
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth…
— Alvin Toffler
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible…
— Maria Shriver
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You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
— Tim Walker
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To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a…
— Deborah Tannen
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So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined,…
— Ludwig Quidde
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The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once…
— Neal Shusterman
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Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that…
— Donald A. Norman
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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly…
— Alaa Al Aswany
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Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.
— David Bromberg
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The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So…
— RuPaul
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But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.
— Radwa Ashour
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My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have…
— Albert Sabin
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Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's…
— Gustavo Dudamel
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It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its…
— Frithjof Schuon
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The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,
— Ingvar Kamprad
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