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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

Oscar Wilde

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Storm Jameson

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

George Washington

It always seems impossible until its done.

Nelson Mandela

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

T. S. Eliot

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

T. S. Eliot

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas A. Edison

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7', it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

Woody Allen

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Helen Keller

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

They've got a lot of weapons; they're very difficult to guard. What they're doing, running through this league, is impossible to do. Hats off to them for what they're doing.

Dave Davis

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

When you talk about the cost of improving what you have out there, in these times, it's going to be impossible.

Jerry Silverman

While the full impact is impossible to gauge at this time, it will clearly have an impact in the current quarter and beyond.

Robert Brust

It is a tremendous joy, ... It is impossible to describe that feeling for me and my wife, who is doing fine.

Prince Frederik

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H. L. Mencken

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Anton Chekhov

Things are only impossible until they're not.

Jean Luc Picard

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

We're on our own here and we know we're on our own. We tried to plan for what's impossible to plan for.

Dan Maloney

Now at rush hour it's impossible to get a taxi. Things have got to change internally in Macau.

William Lerner

Our first goal is to get a good business manager. It's impossible to say how much that person would make.

Cynthia Lowery

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechner

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

But it was nearly impossible to have all the roads cleaned up as early as the rush hour. We couldn't get ahead of it until it started dissipating.

Gene Blaum

Community service is one of the tenets we teach at the CCC. It does connect them with the tragedy. They are begging to come with me, but it's impossible.

Gary Ray

It's impossible for any of us to know when this is going to end.

Paul Morrison

Neil betrayed our trust in so many different ways that it is almost impossible to describe.

Joseph Flaherty

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Jeff Sluman

Some things are impossible.

Alex Van Halen

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

Hugh Hefner

These important deals will allow us to bring concerts that would otherwise be very difficult -- or impossible -- to find on broadcast television to a wide audience.

Dan Marks

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempner

If it is encrypted, then it's almost impossible for crooks to use. Today, I cannot imagine any health care institution that is not using encryption.

Jim Hudson

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Muriel Spark

If you hold that bike, and do not let go, it's impossible to put you in a car.

Bob Stuber

If God wills it … nothing is impossible with God.

Father Andrea Santoro

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

Michael Phelps

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

James Arthur Baldwin

It is impossible for any Spaniard to imagine a World Cup without Spain.

Fernando Torres

They would make condemnations for economic development purposes almost impossible.

Mary Okoye

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Oswald Chambers

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

It's not an impossible task. But we will have to play out our highest level to have even a chance.

Amber Magner

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

It was impossible to get sufficient time for consideration by the Government Advisory Committee members and therefore the board, the chairman decided to postpone the consideration.

Paul Twomey

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Richard Braunstein

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

James Hillman

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

Jim Murray

Until the governors have an evaluation of all the facts, it's impossible to know what is going to happen.

David Braley

I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

J. Hudson Taylor

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Okri

The only thing I guarantee is that I want a very healthy baby, and I'll do all I can do so that this very healthy baby is presented to you soon. If it's impossible to do it here, we'll do it abroad, and we'll move on and move on.

Brigitte Boisselier

I'm even going after Allen's spot, ... Really, it is impossible, but that's just the confidence you've got to have.

Louis Williams

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

They have lost hope. They realize it is impossible.

Mario Ramirez

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Maxim Medvedkov

It's nearly impossible to do what he did. He's a very self-motivated kid.

Todd Barker

Very easy to very difficult or impossible.

Rhino Records

Reputation is based on network parameters that are almost impossible to obfuscate.

Pat Peterson

Some of our kids are in a position where their families can afford that expense. But for most of the families it would be difficult at best, and for some of them it would be impossible if we didn't help them defray the cost.

Wayne Quinlan

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

Bud Wilkinson

It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores. You'd be crazy to do that.

Geoff Mayfield

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

It's physically impossible to shoot them all. If one animal hears something, they sound the alarm and they all disappear.

Janet Hansen

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

Jacques Cousteau

'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It?s very hard to secure a band like O.A.R, and sometimes it?s almost impossible.

Klint Briney

I have always given everything to the band and would have continued to do so if circumstances had not made it impossible.

Richard Ashcroft

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

George Lorimer

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

On a strictly numerical basis it is almost impossible to justify food. But we consider it a part of our brand.

Mark Dunkerley

We understand it caused some frustration. We can't make any exceptions, because it is impossible to evaluate each on a case by case basis.

Sara Anderson

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Tommy Lasorda

That would make it impossible for us.

Bob Patterson

It would be impossible to duplicate The Platinum Collection. It's a gem from a world that no longer exists -- except in our imaginations.

James Campiglia

That would be impossible.

Joe Campbell

They feel like it's not possible to succeed, like these traps are so common because it's impossible to avoid them.

Andrew Stellman

The difficulty to form a government and reshape the constitution is now becoming huge. Hakim will find it now impossible to make meaningful concessions to the Sunnis.

Amatzia Baram

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

Its impossible for a couple guys to pull something like this off. We appreciate the fans and the support they gave, as well as the players on the field.

Dan Sundstrom

We're very grateful to all those who did what they could to bring Cuba into the Classic. We'll do everything possible, and also the impossible, to bring this success to Latin America.

Ariel Pestano

With the videotape, we believe it would be impossible for her to deny she doesn't remember what was going on.

Patrick Campanelli

He made the impossible possible.

Arsene Wenger

We have been battling since the very first day of the project to build this job with the documents that were put in front of us. It was just impossible.

William Hall

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

Greer Garson

We're on our own here and we know we're on our own, ... We tried to plan for what's impossible to plan for.

Laura Maloney

Shoot 25 balls in one minute? It's impossible for me. It's not my game. I know that.

Andres Nocioni

It becomes almost impossible to fix a game if it's all done above board because everything's monitored. People are going to bet no matter what.

Dave Cokin

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK, we agree with the others' ... I think this is an illusion. I think that consensus is almost impossible.

Laith Kubba

We need food parcels that do not require cooking, it's impossible to cook in an environment where its still flooded.

Boitumelo Mahlangu

The FDA and the CDC cultured Gram-negative bacteria out of bags that were never opened here. It was impossible for us to get anything into those bags. They took the bags away from us whole.

Thomas Ryan

Now how do you do that unless you've got support inside the building? How do you do that? It's impossible.

Jack Cloonan

They put down some hits that are impossible to prepare for. We just made a couple of fielding mistakes that hurt us.

Debbie Holcombe

It is very difficult, if not impossible, for us to conduct our business. I don't feel like an equal part of society.

Beverly Jones

It's hard to go to a duals tournament with just eight guys. We give up six weight classes in every dual - 36 points - it is almost impossible to come back from that.

Jared Digmann

Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win.

Bob Stoops

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

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.

William Carlos Williams

That (will be) an impossible task, I'll tell you right now.

Russell Schweickart

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

It's impossible. I'm always behind.

Ralph Tribbey

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bob Barr

It's going to be hit or miss showers. It's impossible to say what times it's going to rain and where.

Steve Vanderburg

A bond's easy to get if you're rich and have a lot of money; if not, it's impossible to get. And I don't think you can buy such a bond.

Jeff Faulkner

The law does not require you to do the impossible. And it was not possible.

David Bernick

It's our job to go through the requests and decide what to cut. That's all you can do. You certainly can't provide everything that's requested - that's impossible.

Gloria Whisenhunt

Do we have a big task ahead of us tomorrow? Yes. Is it an impossible task? I don't think so. We're going into it with the idea that we're going to have fun and see what happens.

Arlo Elkins

When we get new crews it's impossible for them to break in because everyone is back to the same guys year after year. The new crews have a difficult time getting games, and we think this would help that, too.

Bob Lowery

Everyone I know has parents helping them out in some way, because it's impossible otherwise.

Beth O'connell

It was a very difficult time trial, and it set the GC group (the top contenders) apart. There was not much time for other riders to fight back; it was almost impossible to get that time back.

Robin Zellner

It's not impossible and not unusual to have misplaced or confused the two.

Lee Thompson

I like to call it getting happy. Once you 'get happy,' there's not a lot the other team can do. She was really feeling it, and that's almost impossible to defend.

Rick Howard

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

John Haggai

If we didn't have these guys to help us, we wouldn't be able to have these baskets. Just imagine trying to fill 94 baskets. It would almost be impossible. That's why we appreciate everything that these guys do and we appreciate them.

Ann Baker

On the previous lap, I knew we were 15.6 seconds behind. I knew there was no way (Dixon) could come in, stop, get gas and get out ahead of us. It was impossible.

Tim Cindric

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

Gamma-ray bursts in general are notoriously difficult to study, but the shortest ones have been next to impossible to pin down.

Neil Gehrels

I wouldn't have travel plans. If this thing pans out, it may be practically impossible to go anywhere.

Mike Evans

That's not to say it is impossible to work in Afghanistan. The problem is one of delivering enough aid into the hands of those who need it most.

Antonio Donini

It's difficult, but we're making it look like it's impossible. And that's not the way it should be.

Johan Santana

France is doing everything it can, but the problem is that it is impossible to stop Bush from pursuing his logic of war to the end.

Jacques Chirac

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

Monserrat Caballé

It's the judge's discretion what to do. It's impossible to predict what will happen. Is extending the bargaining possible? Yes.

Will Holman

It is really impossible for these people to go out and vote.

Abdul Sattar

I took the decision because I was convinced that it was impossible to play.

Adriano Galliani

This is the most important thing I can do with what God gave me, and I've got a lot of making up to do. God gave me a lot and showed me it is not impossible to use it to help people get to heaven.

Tom Monaghan

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Minnie Driver

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Bob Crosby

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

Sheikh Hasina

It's challenging, but is it impossible? No.

Craig Chretien

I know that you can do the impossible.

Terry Fox

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Sloan Wilson

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.

M.c. Escher

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

James A. Froude

I believe there must be compromises, and it will be impossible to discuss talks without them. We have to reach an agreement to first stop bombings to enable us to conduct talks.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

It's impossible to think that he couldn't find one Latino to put in his Cabinet.

Art Torres

You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....

Charles Manson

It's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

William Eggleston

To say it's shutdown is difficult. It's almost impossible to physically shut it down.

Steve Boylan

There's just no way that the modern canvassing board in Pinellas County can influence an election. It's just about impossible.

John Hubbard

It was impossible for him not to know.

Natasa Kandic

Once an invasive species arrives, it's about impossible to get rid of it.

Sean Hanna

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Winters

According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly.

Doctor Who

Try to do it without these corporate relationships and charge $25 for 100 bands. It?s impossible.

Kevin Lyman

It would be impossible for me to handle the duties of clerk and treasurer without a willing and supportive staff.

Steve Hicks

The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.

George Graham

I think the U.S. and ourselves are on the horns of an absolutely impossible dilemma.

Christopher Meyer

It has made it impossible for us to make decisions because that's the only source for formulary information that's out there.

Barbara Potter

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

If you simply refuted and said 'it is impossible,' the old man would become either angry or sad.

Zhang Danuo

Impossible is a word humans use far too often.

Jeri Ryan

It's impossible for me to go back and put on that hockey sweater again.

Paul Coffey

It is impossible to put an exact figure on the drugs trade.

Stephen Ward

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

If you ask me, it's impossible to pick any of our four rookies as the best. All four guys bring something different to the table, and they're all so valuable to us. I'm glad I don't have to make that call.

Jason Kendall

The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure.

Lloyd Thacker

It is impossible not react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production.

Casey Spooner

We had a lot of mental and physical errors. You can't let anyone get a big lead like that, or it's impossible to win.

Megan Burditt

For a single person like myself, it's almost impossible to get into the housing game. And it's convenient. The location would be great.

Mark Rodriguez

She reflects an America in which things once thought impossible have become possible.

Anne marie Slaughter

You made the impossible possible. Those images of your performances still haven't faded.

Raymond Berry

We have to try and get him fit and that is proving impossible without giving him some sort of break.

Kevin Blackwell

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

Mark Hopkins

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

The trails have matured to the point where it's almost impossible to ignore them now.

Tom Baxter

It?s on the street. It?s impossible not to see. It?s not a secret industry. It?s right in your face.

Iana Matei

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

Dave Navarro

It's almost impossible to get one of his pots. It's ... comparable to a Chihuly piece of glass. He's in that league.

Lois Willman

It's impossible to compare the eras, but they belong in a group among the greatest ever. I have nothing but respect for them. They are worthy of being recognized with history's best.

Jim Mandich

It's simply impossible to fire people at Volkswagen.

Jens Schattner

It is certain because it is impossible.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus