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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Sep 10, 2025
Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.
To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.
The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.
It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones
Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .
It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
Progress is impossible without change
Nothing is impossible with God
Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
It is either easy or impossible.
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
Nothing is impossible to the man who will
When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.
They did not know it was impossible so they did it
The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
God specializes in impossible situations.
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.
Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.
When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
One can't believe impossible things.
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.