Impossible Quotes

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

~ Greer Garson

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

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

~ Robert Mueller

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

~ Henry Adams

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.

~ Charles Mccarry

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

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

~ Thom Mayne

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

~ James A. Baldwin

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

~ Donald Norman

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

~ Mark Hopkins

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

~ Stephen Hawking

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

~ Aristophanes

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

~ Harold Ramis

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

~ Brian Tracy

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

~ Paul Wolfowitz

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

~ Catherine Helen Spence

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

~ Ayn Rand

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

~ William Godwin

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

~ John Galsworthy

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

~ Pierre De Fermat

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

~ Pierre De Fermat

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

~ Arnold Palmer

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

~ Mark Twain

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

~ Simone Weil

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

~ Albert Camus

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

~ Herodotus

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

~ Clive Thompson

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

~ Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

~ Agnes Repplier

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

~ Amy Grant

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

~ Chris Christie

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.

~ Mauricio Macri

In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

~ Joel Fuhrman

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

~ Robert Harris