(652 quotes found)
“In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
Charles Lindbergh
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
Joan Didion
“The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.”
Yoda
“I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity”
Sinclair Lewis
“To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.”
Galileo Galilei
“The only thing impossible is the impossibility of the impossible”
Michael William Finnegan
“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”
William Shakespeare
“We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.”
Christopher Reeve
“But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.”
Jimmy Page
