Imagine The Impossible Quotes

#1. Think the unthinkable,
Imagine the impossible
Pursue the imaginations limits.

Allan Weisbecker

#2. At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

William Shatner

#4. It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#5. Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

Alyson Noel

#6. It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.

Michel Houellebecq

#7. A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

Juan Manuel Santos

#8. I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift ... it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.

Suzanne Collins

#9. Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

Millicent Fawcett

#12. In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

Albert Einstein

#13. For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

David Cronenberg

#14. The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Vladimir Putin

#15. We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

Madeleine Stowe

#16. Dream what others do not.
Imagine what others have not.
Do what others will not.
Achieve what others could not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. It was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. It is impossible for a Westerner to imagine the deadening torpor of a protected life under house arrest. Eventually, one is grateful for the smallest outing outdoors
a lovely picnic in a burqa, being allowed to watch the men and boys fly kites or swim.

Phyllis Chesler

#20. Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.

Alan Turing

#21. 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

#22. There is nothing simpler than carrying out the impossible. You just have to imagine what you must do, and turn your mind off completely, When you come to your senses, everything is already behind you.

Max Frei

#23. This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.

Catherine Of Genoa

#24. The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

Andy Hobsbawm

#25. A boy can't imagine how hard he will find it, someday, to forgive his own enemies. Or his own loved ones. He has no inkling that good men can sometimes find it impossible to forgive themselves. The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.

Ian Caldwell

#26. What good I thought I could do, all alone, against thousands of years of mistrust and the power of a Demonlord, I cannot now imagine: but such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done.
And without those dreams, how should we ever accomplish the impossible?

Elizabeth Kerner

#27. A characteristic of creative people is that they imagine making the impossible possible. That imagining - dreaming, noodling, audaciously rejecting what is (for the moment) true - is the way we discover what is new or important.

Ed Catmull

#28. We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

Christian D. Larson

#29. Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Derrick Jensen

#30. We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

Paul Bloom

#31. I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

Jane Hamilton

#32. It is amazing to watch God do through us what we could never accomplish on our own. It is comforting to know we have a God who is, always faithful, desires more for us than we could imagine, and perfectly capable of doing the impossible.

Richard Blackaby

#33. Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet.

David Kirschner

#34. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich

#35. You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Rita Dove

#36. When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#37. Once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.

James Patterson

#38. If the French army was defeated, it was impossible to imagine that the English would survive.

Charles Kaiser

#39. Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

Ron Johnson

#40. So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

Maryanne O'Hara

#41. The question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.

James C. Collins

#42. It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.

Roger Caillois

#43. It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk.

John McCain

#44. The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Chip Heath

#45. Vision -
You dream the impossible;
You imagine the incredible;
You achieve the extraordinary.

Tim Hawkins

#46. It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

Trudi Canavan

#47. 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

#48. Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Connie Sellecca

#49. It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

Jonathan Tropper

#50. All novels are impossible.
We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality.
I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

Caitlin Williams

#51. Your mind can imagine what others cannot.
Your heart can sense what others cannot.
Your soul can receive what others cannot.
Your feet can go where others cannot.
Your hands can do what others cannot.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Franz Liszt

#53. I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

George Orwell

#54. Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

Steven Pressfield

#55. But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

Marvin Minsky

#56. For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

#57. I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race ... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Alfred North Whitehead

#58. Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

Lauren Oliver

#59. She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables.

Anthony Powell

#60. Nothing within the limits of the human imagination and mind is impossible. If it were, we could not imagine it or dream it.

Douglas Clegg

#61. It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

H.L. Mencken

#62. People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

Lauren Oliver