Top 100 Best Impossible Quotes
#1. Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
Patricia A. McKillip
#2. It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#3. Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all,
and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the
thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the
trees, in the air.
Franz Kafka
#4. It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#5. Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
Bob Goff
#6. Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
Angela Watson
#7. Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Daryl Hall
#9. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.
Emery Lord
#10. My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. 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.
Jimmy Page
#13. No matter how hard or even impossible you may think it is, you always have the choice to hit back and try your best.
Anonymous
#14. When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
Rick Warren
#16. "Kevin is nothing like Kellan," I explained.
"He looks like him."
"Is that all you're interested in?
"Of course you idiot."
I smiled and shook my head at her. "You're impossible."
"Not at all! I'm just shallow!
Chasta Schneider
#17. Influence can be defined as earning the right to be heard so that others are moved toward their best.
Like Salt shaken out influence is hard to see, but its flavor is impossible to miss
Pam Farrel
#18. The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
Herophilos
#19. The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.
Jesse Helms
#20. Trying to figure it all out is impossible. But what isn't impossible is to:
Have gratitude
Stay Positive
Have faith
Be friendly and kind
Listen first; speak second
Do your best, not try to be the best
Enjoy the ride!
Charles F. Glassman
#21. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#22. Some of the best music was composed by Beethovan,but he was deaf,some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton,but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible ...
Shibin Mohammed
#23. In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
Charles Caleb Colton
#24. The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.
Bill Vaughan
#25. It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life
without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
James A. Baldwin
#26. I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.
R. YS Perez
#27. Children are the proof we've been here ... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else ... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
Allison Pearson
#28. Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
Charles Krauthammer
#29. Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John Lennon
#30. Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#31. To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best.
Robin Sharma
#32. Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine.
Alber Elbaz
#33. Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.
John P. Clark
#34. Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
Maggie Carey
#35. For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
Sheryl Sandberg
#36. Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
David Jeremiah
#37. The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.
David Brainerd
#38. People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
Ray Dalio
#40. You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman
#41. In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
Oscar Levant
#42. How impossible it
is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you
couldn't even imagine.
Laurie J. Marks
#43. It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#44. I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
Manju Warrier
#45. What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
Mickey Hart
#46. Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief "it's impossible"!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. It's hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it's also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.
Tim Kreider
#49. Impossible is just the shit nobody's tried yet," Beckett shot back. "My balls are way too big not to hope for the best.
Debra Anastasia
#50. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.
Steve Erickson
#51. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Brian Dyson
#52. A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.
Molly Friedenfeld
#53. It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
#55. It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.
Stanley Kubrick
#56. Steady progress toward seemingly impossible goals will win the day. Setbacks are temporary. Naysayers are best ignored.
Brad Stone
#57. If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.
Khalil Gibran
#58. She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.
Bunny Yeager
#59. 'I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. ( ... ) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#60. The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!
Tasha Alexander
#61. Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#62. But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.
Aidan Chambers
#63. Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
Carl Sagan
#64. To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.
Marissa Meyer
#65. By their nature, it came to me, children were freaks. They believed impossible things to suit themselves, thought their fantasies were the center of the world. They were the best kinds of quacks, if that's what you wanted - pretenders who didn't know they were pretending at all.
Emily Fridlund
#66. You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.
Li Ka-shing
#67. If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen's mirror would definitely say it was the fairest of them all.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#68. As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#69. They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best.
Salman Rushdie
#70. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
Edgar Allan Poe
#71. We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.
Paulo Coelho
#72. That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.
Alexander Alekhine
#73. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise L. Hay
#74. The piece of you that loves a part of me tries its best to hold onto the rest,
but my heart is a thousand-piece puzzle of a faraway galaxy, deep purple,
colors blending together and impossible to place.
Kris Kidd
#75. Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.
Leona Lewis
#76. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.
Anne Edwards
#77. And then, you just realise that everything you've ever needed to succeed just lies inside of you. You just really needed to look inside and draw from the strenght that lies inside. Nothing stands impossible at that very moment. You seem SUPERHUMAN!
Ufuoma Apoki
#78. You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's not impossible.
Siobhan Vivian
#79. Aomame tried her best to keep her mind clear of any thoughts, but it was impossible not to think of anything. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Haruki Murakami
#80. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!"
"Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better."
"Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
George Eliot
#81. God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
Frederick Buechner
#82. It's impossible to own a Norin, no matter how many cages you wrap around them. We will always follow our own star. The best you can do is to hope you've pinned your heart to the same constellation.
Gwynn White
#83. Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
#84. That's the best part about being a kid. Nothing seems impossible until someone bigger and older tells you it is. I grew up in a lovely little world where nothing was too far out of reach if I wanted to work for it. I think I still live in that world.
Lindsey Stirling
#85. I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.
Rachel Machacek
#86. Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.
William Morley Punshon
#87. I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.
Marjane Satrapi
#88. For Be the best in the world is not possible to be the worst in the world is also not possible, in between is always possible. That is what I am , nothing is impossible for me.
Jan Jansen
#89. The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.
Guillaume Musso
#90. You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps. from Best Friends
Martha Moody
#92. Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.
Red Adair
#93. I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.
Lawrence Hill
#94. I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
Eric Davis
#95. If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.
Steven Furtick
#96. You are the best mistake I could have ever made, and if ever there was a rule to be broken, it was the one that would have made us impossible." He pulled back, focusing on her. "I ... regret ... nothing.
Elizabeth Finn
#97. The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.
Guy Kawasaki
#98. Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.
AnnaSophia Robb
#99. The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell
#100. Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
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