Top 100 Impossible To Quotes
#1. It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
Thomas Mars
#3. 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
#4. I had no idea that once you realized you were in love, it was nearly fucking impossible to keep it to yourself
Karina Halle
#5. One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.
John Kinsella
#6. We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
Vaclav Havel
#7. Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.
Rush Limbaugh
#8. Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Orson Scott Card
#10. Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.
Deb Caletti
#11. Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are trying to tell us/ ... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.
William Meredith
#12. Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis
#13. I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.
Joe Biden
#14. Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature - to say nothing of killing and dying for them - would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now?
Sam Harris
#15. When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.
Tony MacAlpine
#17. Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
W. H. Auden
#18. It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.
Edward Bernays
#19. No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.
Ted Williams
#20. As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.
David Graeber
#21. It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that it seems impossible to make the first move
Michelle Richmond
#23. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
H.G.Wells
#24. I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.
Jared Leto
#25. It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.
James Thurber
#26. Until both men and women are allowed to be who we are rather than who we are supposed to be, it will be impossible to achieve freedom and equality.
Brene Brown
#27. 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.
H.L. Mencken
#28. Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.
Frederick Lenz
#29. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.
Frederick Weisel
#30. It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
#31. The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
James Schuyler
#32. It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#33. love is like war....
easy to start....
difficult to end...
impossible to forget...
Jan Jansen
#34. It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.
Rex Warner
#35. It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to ... the Word of God.
Jack W. Hayford
#36. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.
Cass McCombs
#37. It's impossible to truly love someone without believing that there is a God who made that person just for you.
K.S. Haigwood
#38. It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Isaac Asimov
#39. It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga
#40. I really should have known better. It would be damn near impossible to tell a fib about not being cold to a being that both had an innate mastery over elemental fire and was magically bound to my soul.
Corinn Heathers
#41. [ ... ] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#42. He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. You're not crazy. I love you.
Lauren Hammond
#43. If anyone ever bothered to apply the rod of discipline to your backside, you probably wouldn't be so impossible to deal with.
Cathy Marie Hake
#45. People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!
Sean Connery
#46. We didn't know it at the time, but we were lovesick. Our innocence was beautiful, impossible to capture again, impossible to re-create.
Renee Carlino
#47. 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
#48. The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.
David Brooks
#49. When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Maimonides
#50. It is impossible to know the laws of life without knowing its Author and Founder.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
Ambrose
#52. Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.
Newt Gingrich
#53. The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
William Tyndale
#54. Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate. Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we lose touch with our beauty within.
Bryant McGill
#55. It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.
Stephanie Zacharek
#56. There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
Eric Allman
#57. The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson
#59. It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.
John Mayer
#60. As infuriating as he was, I found Forgiveness ... interesting. It's been impossible to forget, the way he looked at me. Not like I'm a dealer selling the drug he wants, or just another duty to be carried though. No, Forgiveness stared at me as if I'm someone.
And that's a drug all its own.
Kelsey Sutton
#61. It is impossible to be angry for very long with a man who wears a wig.
Auberon Waugh
#62. Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press.
Andy Coulson
#63. It seems impossible to believe that a girl not yet in her teens could fall in love, but I remember so vividly the moment I first laid eyes on him...
Lucinda Riley
#64. It's nearly impossible to overstate how fully my father has devoted himself to Apollo Group and its mission since he created Apollo Group four decades ago.
Peter Sperling
#65. If our focus is whether our wants are met, it is almost impossible to remain thankful. Let's be thankful that our needs have been met!
Assegid Habtewold
#66. It is truly impossible to conquer what you are not willing to confront.
Carla Cannon
#67. It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.
Harold J. Laski
#68. My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.
Lewis Carroll
#69. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
Frank Rijkaard
#70. Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.
Jonathan Zittrain
#71. Father God, according to Your Word, without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to You must believe that You exist and that You reward those who earnestly seek You. (Heb. 11:6) Lord, I want to please You. Build faith in me so my life will honor the life of Your Son.
Beth Moore
#72. Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.
Susane Colasanti
#73. I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
Leo Tolstoy
#74. It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.
Kaskade
#75. I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
Dirk Benedict
#76. That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
Marianne Moore
#77. When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.
Juliette Drouet
#78. So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Donald Trump
#79. The problem with rich lists is ... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis
#80. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#81. When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.
Marc Faber
#82. I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#83. It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
Howard Hodgkin
#84. There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant ... The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#85. That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
Julian Of Norwich
#86. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert
#87. We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
Bernard Malamud
#88. Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.
Murray Rothbard
#89. The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
M. Night Shyamalan
#90. Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying to mambo.
Suzanne Finnamore
#91. Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
Freeman Dyson
#92. That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.
Stacia Kane
#93. I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
Han Fei
#94. I just, I don't know, put up so many invisible walls between us when I was younger that it seems impossible to tear them down now.
Lindy Zart
#95. We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Paul Simon
#96. Feel thanks and it is impossible to feel angry. We can only feel one emotion at time. We get to choose which do you was to feel?
Ann Voskamp
#97. The fire you have within you is impossible to kill. The first breath you take when you're free of all this, it will come roaring back. That's what is so impossibly beautiful about you.
Rebecca Yarros
#98. A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.
Ivanka Trump
#99. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
#100. It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.
Kristen Stewart
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