Quotes with impossible

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  • Agatha Christie The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
    Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Auguste Rodin The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Salman Rushdie The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
    (2005)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Dickens The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Robert H. Schuller The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Ayn Rand 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
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Mme de Stael The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Arnold Newman There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Douglas Adams There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John Galsworthy 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
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Aristophanes These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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