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Impossibility is a dictionary word. -- Sri Chinmoy
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. -- Ray Bradbury
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. -- William Cobbett
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. -- Charles Kettering
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. -- Emil Cioran
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. -- Thomas a Kempis
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. -- Leo Tolstoy
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. -- James Wolfe
Impossibility never prevented anything from happening. -- Errico Malatesta
Impossibility is a subset of the universe. -- Toba Beta
Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love. -- Laurie R. King
Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible. -- Karl Barth
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey. -- Sri Aurobindo
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. -- Andrew Marvell
You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. -- Robert H. Schuller
Hell is the impossibility of reason. -- Oliver Stone
Never let me hear that foolish word again. -- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. -- Aristotle
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. -- Arnold H. Glasow
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. -- Janos Arany
Every man is an impossibility until he is born. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. -- Dorothea Brande
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. -- Aristotle
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. -- Theodore Roethke
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. -- E. F. Schumacher
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. -- Epictetus
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. -- Lee De Forest
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. -- William Poundstone
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. -- Annie Dillard
I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds. -- Oscar De La Hoya
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. -- Anita Brookner
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. -- Loren Eiseley
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. -- Democritus
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. -- Mark Twain
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. -- James A. Baldwin
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. -- James A. Baldwin
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature. -- John James Audubon
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. -- Auberon Herbert
It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.' -- Lysander Spooner
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness. -- Ray Comfort
To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.] -- Plautus
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time. -- Graydon Carter
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself. -- Jessica Valenti
Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came? -- Kirk Cameron
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it? -- Twiggy
An undevout poet is an impossibility. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To expect an impossibility is madness. -- Marcus Aurelius
Without risk, faith is an impossibility. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Peace without justice is an impossibility. -- Desmond Tutu
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. -- Diane Arbus
A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility. -- John Stuart Mill
possibility is far more frightening than impossibility ... -- Julia Cameron
An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged. -- Wes Fesler
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility. -- Toba Beta
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe -- Ray Bradbury
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Every new idea is impossibility until it is born. -- Ron Brown
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility. -- Tertullian
When you do your best, there is no impossibility. -- Nonito Donaire
A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility. -- Satoshi Kanazawa
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. -- Alain Badiou
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. -- John Keats
Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance. -- Wes Fesler
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. -- Honore de Balzac
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. -- Marquis de Sade
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. -- Ilana Mercer
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility. -- Dennis Lindley
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done -- John Galsworthy
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. -- Philip Guston
A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. -- Nils Heribert-Nilsson
Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful. -- Debasish Mridha
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. -- Andy Hargreaves
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. -- Douglas Coupland
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity. -- Buju Banton
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change ... -- Diane Ravitch
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire. -- Ernest Sosa
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. -- Elie Wiesel
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. -- Geena Davis
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious. -- Ernest Sosa
This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility. -- Jack Kent Cooke
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees. -- Edith Cavell
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts. -- John Wooden
Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it. -- Aubrey de Grey
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility. -- Angus Buchan
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ... -- Queen Victoria
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement. -- John Maus
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible -- Adedayo kingjerry
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility -- David Buss
Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own. -- Thomas Lennon
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds. -- Wolfgang Ostwald
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. -- Guy Debord
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief. -- Smith Wigglesworth
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth. -- E.D.E.N. Southworth
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination. -- John Stewart Bell
When there is no cure, give the hope and share the possibility. Shine the light of miracle in the darkness of impossibility. -- Debasish Mridha
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. -- Desmond Tutu
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. -- Stephenie Meyer

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