Impossible Quotes

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When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within… — George Eliot
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever. — W. Somerset Maugham
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases… — George Carlin
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of… — Joseph Story
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. — Woodrow Wilson
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the… — Saint Augustine
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. — John Ruskin
If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something… — Tad Williams
Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I… — Stonewall Jackson
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people… — William Cobbett
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. — Gyorgy Ligeti
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream. — Bernard Williams
Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a… — Wayne Dyer

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