Impossible Quotes

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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life,… — Leo Tolstoy
It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world. — Rabindranath Tagore
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. — Rabindranath Tagore
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is… — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside… — Henepola Gunaratana
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended. — Timothy Keller
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. — Walter Lippmann
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it… — Peter Ustinov
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible. — Cynthia Ozick
I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another… — Malcolm X
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy. — Charles Dickens
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese. — Charles de Gaulle

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