Quotes with impossible

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  • Bette Davis This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Napoleon Hill Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Tom Robbins To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • James A. Froude To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Dorothea Brande To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Sir Walter Scott To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • B. J. Novak Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Samuel Butler Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • James Baldwin Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bill Maris We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Alison Lurie We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
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  • Anna Brownell Jameson We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
    Anna Brownell Jameson
    Irish-born English writer, 1794–1860; author of the Diary of an ennyueé (1794 - 1860)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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