Quotes on Impossible

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

It's impossible to be ethnically pure.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.