Impossible Quotes - page 5

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. (George Santayana)
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. View quote
George Santayana
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. View quote
Herodotus
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the 'Universe'), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. View quote
Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. View quote
Oscar Wilde
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. View quote
Jesse Jackson
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux)
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. View quote
Agatha Christie
You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the World Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun. View quote
Derek Jeter
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they're going on. View quote
Julian Assange
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. View quote
Franz Liszt
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. View quote
Douglas Adams
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. View quote
Epicurus
It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. View quote
Edward Bernays
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. View quote
H. L. Mencken
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. (H. L. Mencken)
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass. View quote
George Colman the Younger