Impossible Quotes

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"

"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled"

John Ruskin, Writer

"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, Writer

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse"

James Joyce, Novelist

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible"

George Washington, President

"Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Who so loves believes the impossible"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible"

George P. Baker

"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well"

Paul Valery, Poet

"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

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