Impossible Quotes - page 6

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 virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. (Peter Ustinov)
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning” of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. View quote
Sydney Smith
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. View quote
Stanisław Lem
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. View quote
Chris Martin
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. View quote
Fridtjof Nansen
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, Where is your dwelling-place In the dreams of the Impotent, comes the answer. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. View quote
Mark Twain
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. (Dan Brown)
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. View quote
Franz Boas
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. View quote
Winston Churchill
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. View quote
John Galsworthy
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected? View quote
Pliny the Elder
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. View quote
Haim Ginott
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. View quote
Albert Einstein
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. (Manuel Puig)
Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. View quote
Robert Rodriguez
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. View quote
Cecil B. DeMille
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. View quote
Thom Mayne
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. View quote
Ulrich Beck