Impossible Quotes

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

~ J.k. Rowling

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

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

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

~ Dorothea Brande

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

~ Arthur C. Danto

Who so loves believes the impossible.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

~ Che Guevara

Love without conversation is impossible.

~ Mortimer Adler

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

~ Muriel Spark

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

~ Plato

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

~ Harrison Ford

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

~ Georges Simenon

It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

~ Jeff Jordan

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

~ Michael Phelps

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.

~ Chuck Norris

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

~ Michio Kaku

Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.

~ Keith Barry

I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

~ John Brunner

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

~ Stephen Hawking

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

~ John Waters

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

~ Bobby Scott

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

~ Michael Flatley

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

~ Bette Davis

Every noble work is at first impossible.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

~ Ai Weiwei

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

~ Franz Liszt

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

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

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

~ John Charles Polanyi

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

~ Richard P. Feynman

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

~ Lewis Mumford

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

~ Chrystia Freeland

It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

~ Campbell Brown

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

~ Bill Gates

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

~ Ian Lustick

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

~ Dorothea Dix

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

~ Khaleda Zia

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

~ Barry Goldwater