Quotes with impossible

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  • Barbara Deming Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Vaclav Havel Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Victor Hugo Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Callie Khouri Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • John Andrew Holmes Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Lily Tomlin No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Margaret Mead 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
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • A. H. Weiler Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
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  • John Heywood Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Anne Rice Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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