Impossible Quotes
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.
When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.
I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.
God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.