Top 100 It Is Impossible Quotes

#1. Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.

Chris Hardwick

#2. It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

#3. So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

Milton Friedman

#4. Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

Brian Bosworth

#5. The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly

Michael Crichton

#6. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#8. The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

Alexander Lowen

#9. If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

John Ruskin

#10. The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#11. Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.

Danny Meyer

#12. It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

Vagit Alekperov

#13. He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Heather O'Neill

#15. And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

Sharan B. Merriam

#16. Have you ever noticed that once you have had a tasted of certain sweets- raspberry trifle is my own despair- it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?

Elizabeth Hoyt

#17. It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

Peter Straub

#19. Go for the impossible and you shall find out that it is possible! Impossibility is the fabrication of the coward and weak minds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Vernon Howard

#21. Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

James MacDonald

#22. I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Pepys

#23. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#24. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#25. If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

John Calvin

#26. The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said.

Robert B. Parker

#27. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies

#28. It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

George Orwell

#29. Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

Simon McBurney

#30. The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. It's such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes.

Max Schneider

#31. Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Jane Rule

#32. The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

Anthony Fauci

#33. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.

Adam Silvera

#34. Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

Masashi Kishimoto

#35. It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bob Barr

#36. Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#37. It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

Zig Ziglar

#38. The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

George Stephen

#39. It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

Cory Doctorow

#40. It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#41. It Is Impossible For Anyone To Live Independently Of The Kingdom Of God And Be Truly Happy

Sunday Adelaja

#42. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Viktor E. Frankl

#43. Nothing is impossible, even the word it self says i'm possible.

Audrey Hepburn

#44. If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Ilyas Kassam

#45. As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#46. Nothing is impossible, the world it's self says I'm possible!

Audrey Hepburn

#47. Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.

John Sexton

#48. Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened ... It is impossible that he should still love me.

Jane Austen

#49. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

T.I.

#50. Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#51. Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.

Nick Bollettieri

#52. It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#53. It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#54. It is utterly impossible to be happy without being grateful.

Toni Sorenson

#55. ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

Walter Russell

#56. Reality is painful
it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing
but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Aaron Swartz

#57. It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#58. In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It

Catherynne M Valente

#59. Without knowing who I am and why I'm here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I cannot live

Leo Tolstoy

#60. It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

C.S. Lewis

#61. It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

Michael Tolkin

#62. It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.

Mary Daly

#63. My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

Michael Carbonaro

#64. It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses ...

Ignatius Of Antioch

#65. One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

Roy Romer

#66. I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#67. 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

#68. Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#69. Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#70. If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Bruce Lee

#71. When I am not drinking deeply from the inexhaustible well of love that is Jesus, it is impossible for me to share that love with the community behind closed doors as well as my greater community.

Kara Tippetts

#72. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Jeremy Renner

#73. I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Howard Barker

#74. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Rush Limbaugh

#75. It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Milton Sapirstein

#76. Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Aesop

#77. Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#78. There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,
to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

Jonathan Swift

#79. Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Northrop Frye

#80. Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

Callie Khouri

#81. 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

#82. Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it's impossible to lie in front of you

D. Aswini

#83. Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer ... Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.

Vincent De Paul

#84. The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

Jose Rizal

#85. Where the world ends
The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
The roots of the world.

William Butler Yeats

#86. It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.

Michelle Dockery

#87. Perhaps most important to keep in mind, however, is that it can be impossible to distinguish between the symptoms of MS and those of gluten sensitivity.

Shari Lieberman

#88. He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, 'It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

Herbert Mason

#89. The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved. . . .

David McCullough

#90. Consider for a moment that when you see someone as being 'gifted', it is out of a belief that whatever it is that they do, would be impossible for you to do. You should also consider that maybe their 'gift', is nothing more than an undeveloped skill in you.

Gary Hopkins

#91. If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

Ray Kroc

#92. It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.

Ernest Hemingway,

#93. We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#94. Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

Kcat Yarza

#95. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever

Alex Flinn

#96. One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

Nancy Ruth

#97. There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

James Hudson Taylor

#98. It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#99. There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

#100. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Whatever the Party holds
to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except
by looking through the eyes of the Party.

George Orwell

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