Impossible Quotes

4226 Impossible quotes by 2623 unique authors

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it,… — Muriel Rukeyser
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men… — C.S. Lewis
You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full… — Michelle Tea
Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated… — Susane Colasanti
The impossible is the least that one can demand. — James A. Baldwin
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve… — Winston Churchill
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time. — Henry A. Kissinger
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is… — Aldo Leopold
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. — Nicholas Sparks
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only… — Richard Matheson
No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the… — John O'Donohue
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan… — Nicholas Sparks
The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable. — Stevie Wonder
I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane. — Terry Pratchett
Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.… — Orson Scott Card
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a… — George Orwell
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. — Marilynne Robinson

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