Something Is Impossible Quotes

#1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it's possible and you do it.

Jude Watson

#3. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. If someone tells you something is impossible, make it possible.

A.D. Posey

#5. If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Believe something is impossible,' said his ancestor calmly, 'and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything.

S.F. Said

#7. Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.

Kate Lattey

#8. When something is impossible, I do it anyway.

Michael Treanor

#9. When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

Bruce Lee

#10. The moment you start to believe something is impossible, the moment it ceases to exist.

A.D.Y. Howle

#11. If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Chris Gethard

#12. Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Robert Rodriguez

#13. Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible.

Monty Oum

#14. A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Seth Godin

#15. When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.

David J. Schwartz

#16. I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

Adam Khoo

#17. The moment we are thinking something is impossible it happen to Us.

Jan Jansen

#18. I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.
When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed.
Or maybe we became something new.
Maybe we made it exist.

Mary E. Pearson

#20. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

Bill Bryson

#21. When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

Melody Beattie

#22. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...

Tad Williams

#23. If no one ever tried anything, even what some folks say is impossible, no one would ever learn anything. So you just keep on trying and maybe some day you'll try something that will work.

Richard Louv

#24. What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Kentetsu Takamori

#25. When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. Happiness is not something that can not be precisely measured, discussed in plebiscites or analyzed by specialists. We Don't even ask what kind of car someone drives, let alone so personal and impossible to define.

Paulo Coelho

#27. 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

#28. The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Bertrand Russell

#29. To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#30. 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

#31. I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and those are the stories that I find myself drawn to. I love characters that believe the impossible is possible.

Glen Keane

#32. 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

#33. Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Constance Baker Motley

#34. It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.

Upton Sinclair

#35. I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused something to break. The fact that almost every case involves opposing experts just serves to confirm this difficulty.

Mark Eberhart

#36. Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave.

Chris Matakas

#37. Things exist because we observe them; because something beyond our control created them. Absolute Knowledge is infinity. It's an impossible concept to comprehend, let alone achieve without an infinite amount of time.

Drew Cordell

#38. If you think something hard is impossible, you'll never even start trying to achieve it.

Peter Thiel

#39. Not only is there no way to make everyone happy, it's nearly impossible to make anyone happy. And anyway, most people only think they want to be happy. Including me. There's something wildly freeing about knowing that.

Caroline Burau

#40. The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Jeanette Winterson

#41. Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Bodhidharma

#42. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Walter Wriston

#43. It seems so impossible that someone could look at [Andy and Noah], see how plainly they care for each other, and find anything ugly or shameful or worthy of hatred in it, when all I see is something beautiful.

Hannah Harrington

#44. Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#45. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.

Heather Lyons

#46. I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on ... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.

Andre Breton

#47. It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#48. I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

Wim Wenders

#49. It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Natalie Dormer

#50. Among the top Google searches of 2014 were Ebola and the movie 'Frozen.' One leaves you with something highly infectious that's impossible to get out of your system. The other is Ebola.

Conan O'Brien

#51. The misery of other people is only an abstraction [ ... ] something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Nicole Krauss

#52. Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

Jonathan Lethem

#53. To say that a social order is maintained by military force immediately raises the question: what maintains the military order? It is impossible to organise an army solely by coercion. At least some of the commanders and soldiers must truly believe in something, be

Yuval Noah Harari

#54. Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people ... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

Karl Lagerfeld

#55. Nothing is impossible, nothing is risky, when you take the action with love, something better will happen.

Debasish Mridha

#56. There's a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible - just merely unlikely.

Nick Nwaogu

#57. What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I'm not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#58. Every day, someone is doing something that someone else said was impossible.

Glenn Hefley

#59. Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Iyanla Vanzant

#60. Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior.

Robin S. Sharma

#61. Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Doug Henning

#62. Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

David Beaty

#63. Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

#64. Whatever else men have believed, they have all believed that there is something the matter with mankind. This sense of sin has made it impossible to be natural and have no clothes, just as it has made it impossible to be natural and have no laws.

G.K. Chesterton

#65. Being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille)

Georges Bataille

#66. Death is the worst kind of thief. It takes whatever soul it chooses, and then out of sheer spite or mean-spiritedness strips the humanity from the shell it leaves behind so that it's impossible to believe life ever dwelt within something so

Eyre Price

#67. Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don't do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

Vivienne Westwood

#68. It is impossible to know how the choices we make will change the course of our future, how a small break from a relationship might seal our fate, or how an inconsequential choice over something we deem temporary could become permanent.

Ellie Wade

#69. The flames are visible in the gaps between and rising slightly above. They are obscured only at the bottom, so it is impossible to tell what is burning, if it is wood or coal or something else entirely.
The flames are not yellow or orange, but white as snow as they dance.

Erin Morgenstern

#70. My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#71. I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me.

Jim James

#72. Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained ... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. Plato laid down the principle that it is impossible to look at something ugly without taking something of it into the soul, and it is equally impossible to be in contact with what is beautiful without reacting to it.

William McGuire

#74. If one's life is so unsatisfying that an unhealthy activity brings a shred of happiness, it is nigh impossible to give it up unless something that brings greater happiness can be enjoyed in its stead. (28)

Prem Prakash

#75. Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of indefinable resonance that I find impossible to resist.

Haruki Murakami

#76. An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Robert A. Heinlein

#77. This is the only thing that makes life worth living. If you have succeeded in doing something you wanted to do, something that seemed impossible - well, then, make the most of it, with all your heart, to the very brim.

Ivan Turgenev

#78. It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact writing something quite different.

Russell M. Goldfarb

#79. To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

Charles Bukowski

#80. All belief is the least reliable form of knowing ... Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.

Luke Rhinehart

#81. I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.

Woody Allen

#82. It is quite impossible to guess in advance what will interest a man, but most men are capable of a keen interest in something or other, and when once such an interest has been aroused their life becomes free from tedium.

Bertrand Russell

#83. The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

Ken MacLeod

#84. Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.

Lin Yutang

#85. Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time - something that is impossible without a risen Savior.

Tony Reinke

#86. Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Eric L. Haney

#87. ...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.

G.E. Moore

#88. There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Douglas Adams

#89. I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

Jennifer McMahon

#90. If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

Jessica Cutler

#92. Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

Garth Stein

#93. Which is to say that we all have dragons to slay in life. This one is mine. I hope that doing so will provide a model to others on how to find the bravery to be true to oneself, even if it means doing something that seems impossible.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#94. Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving

Mira Grant

#95. When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

Simon Norfolk

#96. 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.

Stendhal

#97. People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.

Donna Lynn Hope

#98. Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.

Holly Hunter

#99. I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go.

Choi Minho

#100. Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

Ray Comfort