Impossibilities Quotes

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why. ~ Robin Wasserman

She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings. ~ Anais Nin

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy. ~ Kevin Swanson

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities. ~ Claes Oldenburg

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said ... that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I shall be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of bringing forward new principles and new arrangements of boundless value to my country, and however much I may be straitened in pecuniary circumstances, the great honour of being a useful subject can never be taken from me, which far exceeds riches. ~ Richard Trevithick

Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing. ~ Grenville Kleiser

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities. ~ Gilles Deleuze

Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.'
'Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.'
'Nothing, madame?'
'Nothing' she replied. ~ Alexandre Dumas

When facts give way to faith, then and only then do you unlock the possibilities within. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. ~ Joseph Addison

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. ~ Aristotle.

... Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while 'successful political action is always the "art of the possible" ... the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it'. ~ Nicholas Gane

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. ~ William Poundstone

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God. ~ Smith Wigglesworth

The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a world so full of beauty, majesty, and terror that if animals perceived it all they would be paralyzed to act ... What would the average man (sic) do with a full consciousness of absurdity? He has fashioned his character for the precise purpose of putting it between himself and the facts of life; it is his special tour-de-force that allows him to ignore incongruities, to nourish himself on impossibilities, to thrive on blindness. He accomplishes thereby a peculiarly human victory: the ability to be smug about terror. ~ Ernest Becker

I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous. I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities. ~ Amelia B. Edwards

In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the definition.
im·pos·si·ble [im-pos-uh-buhl]
Old definition: Unable to be done.
New definition: Unable to be ignored until done. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. ~ Pindar

Creation takes place in bottlenecks ... A creator who isn't grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is no creator. A creator's someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities ... it's by banging your head on the wall that you find a way through. You have to work on the wall, because without a set of impossibilities, you won't have the line of flight, the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth. Your writing has to be liquid or gaseous simply because normal perception and opinion are solid, geometric ... You have to open up words, break things open, to free earth's vectors. ~ Gilles Deleuze

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~ Janos Arnay

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. ~ Miriam Allen De Ford

Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities. ~ Nicky Gumbel

The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities. ~ Ransom Riggs

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. ~ Robert Mallet

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities. ~ Alan Redpath

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world - indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-states - the power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word 'glamour' developed out of the word 'grammar'. The person who could read would be thought easily capable of other impossibilities. ~ Peter Sloterdijk

Love is when two impossibilities come together and make one possibility. ~ Jill Thrussell

Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won't go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities. ~ Eva Brann

In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It's not necessary that the lies be particularly believable, but merely that they be erected as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. ~ Derrick Jensen

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus. ~ Bill Johnson

LIVE like Heaven is waiting. LOVE like you have never been hurt. LAUGH like no one is listening. SING as if no one can hear. DANCE as if no one is watching. DREAM like there are no impossibilities. PLAY like there are no losers. GIVE like you have plenty. SMILE till your face hurts. CHERISH your family and friends every day. ~ Unkown Author

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children ... ~ Rhonda Byrne

The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present. ~ Joseph Henry

A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure. ~ Olarewaju Oladipo

When circumstances appear impossible, faith reminds us that apparent impossibilities are wondrous opportunities for God to move. ~ Cheryl Zelenka

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. ~ Aristotle.

God is the God of new things, expect new things, fresh things and tangible things in this new season. Open your heart and believe, that's all you have to do; is to believe He's able to turn impossibilities into possibilities. That is the God we serve. ~ Euginia Herlihy

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five. ~ Robert Aris Willmott

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ~ Robert South

My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the 'possible,' while God is inviting me to the forefront of the 'impossible. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power.
If you choose to say, 'God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,' you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prifex to them the two other words, 'God can.'
It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. ~ C.S. Lewis

The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible. ~ Lisa Mangum

Nourish your heart in My promises and laugh at your impossibilities, and the miracle will be birthed in your heart. ~ Brian Simmons

God reveals possibilities through impossibilities"! EL ~ Evinda Lepins

Allow God into your impossibilities and follow His directions and He will turn it into possibilities. ~ John K.E. Edumadze

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles. ~ Robert H. Schuller

The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky. ~ Auliq Ice

Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire. ~ John Updike

Diligence removes impossibilities. ~ Baltasar Gracian

First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself possible, by means either inadequate or actually opposed to the end in view. Thirdly, In enabling us to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical, and most effectual manner. Fourth, In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish, object which, but for such knowledge, we should never have thought of understanding.
On the ways that a knowledge of the order of nature can be of use. ~ John Herschel

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? ~ Maya Banks

Faith is blind ... to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God. ~ S.D. Gordon

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~ Thomas Carlyle

People who achieve big things are those who decide to try ideas that were previously rated and graded as impossibilities. "Impossibility" never exists! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. ROMANS 12:21 NOVEMBER 22 People talk about the evils of our society - the breakdown of morality, the rising incidence of crime, the growing paganism of our generation, and the dishonesty rampant in human affairs. Sometimes people say, "It's so bad that you can never do anything about it. These things are so deeply rooted in the wickedness of human nature that you can never eradicate them. It's an impossibility." It is my humble judgment that the remedy for these social impossibilities is for individuals to be so stimulated and motivated, to become so identified with God, that they become part of His process of overcoming impossiblilities. "Here I stand; I can do no other," said Martin Luther. It was he himself, individually, who stood for principles so forcefully that he initiated great changes in the social order. Individuals overcome impossibilities. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ~ Derrick Jensen

Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. In some persons this sense of being cut off from their rightful resources is extreme, and we then get the formidable neurasthenic and psychasthenic conditions, with life grown into one tissue of impossibilities, that so many medical books describe.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum. In elementary faculty, in co-ordination, in power of inhibition and co ntro l, in every conceivable way, his life is contracted like the field of vision of an hysteric subject - but with less excuse, for the poor hysteric is diseased, while in the rest of us, it is only an inveterate habit - the habit of inferiority to our full self - that is bad. ~ Colin Wilson

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities.
Macon ~ Margaret Stohl

And that's the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand ... We'll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible. ~ Barack Obama

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. ~ Maria Edgeworth

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus. ~ Bill Johnson

Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated you in a friendly way, though they already had their weapons ready and were only waiting for some sort of sign; you remember how cleverly you finally deceived them, hid from them; then you realize that they know your whole deception by heart and merely do not show you that they know where you are hiding; but you are clever and deceive them again - all that you remember clearly. But why at the same time could your reason be reconciled with such obvious absurdities and impossibilities, with which, among other things, your dream was filled? Before your eyes, one of your murderers turned into a woman, and from a woman into a clever, nasty little dwarf - and all that you allowed at once, as an accomplished fact, almost without the least perplexity, and precisely at the moment when, on the other hand, your reason was strained to the utmost, displaying extraordinary force, cleverness, keenness, logic? Why, also, on awakening from your dream and entering fully into reality, do you feel almost every time, and occasionally with an extraordinary forc ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician." ~ H.L. Mencken

Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other! ~ Rosa Campbell Praed

I don' know if we believe that things can't be done. Rather, I think that we're too fearful to believe that maybe they can. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. ~ Ronald Reagan

Wisdom
I who have decided to love mankind
instead of men,

to love life's contradictions,
impossibilities.

I who have grown into a fine old
philosopher, when suddenly

the telephone rings, his voice
prickling the length of my neck.

Or he teases me, calls me
sweet little goose
and my heart careens.

What we love in another
is the life in that person;
that is why we must never
seek to possess him.

sweet little goose ~ Janice Kulyk Keefer

Fear leaves us stuck on impossibilities; joy takes us to possibilities. EL ~ Evinda Lepins

There's always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ~ Aristotle.

It was an impossibility, but Augusta lived quite comfortably with impossibilities. ~ Jude Morgan

When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities. ~ Elizabeth Chandler

True love perceives no impossibilities. ~ Debasish Mridha

A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils, is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. ~ Mary Shelley

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. ~ Dale Carnegie