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Quotes including the word “impossible”.

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Great the Alexander

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.

Mikhail Bakunin

The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.

Karen Blixen

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Karen Blixen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, you must attempt the absurd.

Arthur Clarke

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Feuerbach

The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.

Goethe

Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Na Hye-sok

the experience taught me: nothing is impossible.

Lautreamont

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Stanislaw Lem

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Doris Lessing

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Jose Martí

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Herman Melville

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

John Milton

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Napoleon

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Karl Popper

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Poussin

It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!

Rolland

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Stendhal

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Unamuno

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

L. Wittgenstein

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.