Quotessence
Home / Topics / Impossible Quotes

Impossible Quotes

Browse 5414 quotes about Impossible.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingMenWorldKnowsWayBelieveTryingWantSeemsShouldWould BeDifficultMindHumansMayFeelsMadeDreamGivingHas BeensNeedsLooksFirstsHardWritingDoneMeanPersonsKindIdeasFactsLongDoeLittlesTwoNothing Is ImpossibleSometimesRealYearsHeartMatterImpossible ThingsReasonWellsStatesProblemStillsArtInspirationalSaidEasyWholeHappensImpossibilityMomentsEnoughImagineEndsSelfWarLawCertainMightBookFoundPossibilityCountryChildrenTasksTodayBodyCoursesEyeFormAchieveDesireLifeCan DoBeliefRealityHandsPlayGovernmentShowsSoulUseCharacterChristianFeelingsI CanImportantLoveSituationFacesPoliticalHelpingOrderMovingmore

Impossible Quotes

“An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's impossible for a larger entity to swallow a smaller one without completely reshaping it. When this process begins, a wild visionary - the entrepreneur type - is the most toxic, indigestible actor imaginable. And this is why I roll my eyes when a new acquisition is announced: Because I don't see it as a triumphant graduation but a sacrifice to an industry that is afraid to dream big.”

DreamBigsEyeValuesActorsBeliefProcessImpossibleSacrificeDesignTypeIndustryAmbitionEntrepreneurCreatorToxicEntityVisionariesAcquisitionTriumphant
Author:Jake Lodwick
Create image

“Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.”

MenWorldMayMadeHardLawSocialWomenImpossibleThis WorldComfortTortureHard TimesDelusionCustomsOppressedSuperiorityAssuranceMasculineEgoism
Book:Mencken Chrestomathy
Create image

“Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.”

LittlesImportantShowsOrderImpossibleCircumstancesBattleAccountsRelateReliance
Book:The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index
Create image

“Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.”

InspirationalBodyTogetherHateReligiousLevelsWorryImpossibleConditionsHealthyAnxietyBitternessImpatienceAvariceCondemnationHealthy BodyUnkindnessCellular
Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
Create image

“Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.”

MayDoeCertainIndividualChanceLossNumbersImpossibleSecurityCommitmentSafetyInvestingProfitWork OutFavorsGuaranteesInvestorsExceedMargins
Author:Benjamin Graham
Create image

“The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.”

ShowsWould BeActionUniversePrinciplesImpossibleSceneConsequencePermanentAttributes
Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Create image

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

KnowsMenTwoIdeasDifferentBodyWould BeTogetherTurnsUniverseImaginationAnimalUnitedClassTakenImpossibleEssentialsPlantSensesDisorderImperfectionLinkedCurvesFossils
Author:Gottfried Leibniz
Create image

“Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.”

KnowsSeemsImpossibleSpring
Book:The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
Create image

“Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.”

KnowsWorldLittlesSelfStatesDesireImpossibleActivitySurrenderEnjoyedLittle ThingsSerenityFulfilledCalmnessPlungeRenunciationDesire For Power
Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Create image

“Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.”

ThinkingMenLooksBookEnergyDifferencesDealsExistenceImpossibleSceneResourcesSpotsFormerLatterEmployedVisionariesSunny
Book:Works
Create image

“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”

SelfUnderstandingNatureClearImpossibleEssentialsIntellectualExperiencePhilosophicalMethodSelf RealizationRealizationAccomplishedEntrancesGrasping
Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
Create image

“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.”

IfsMindHumansMayMomentsMightHappensNextHuman BeingsSpaceWorryClearMeditationImpossibleHappenedEventsCapableYogaCarefulInstantConsiderationPresent Moment
Author:H. E Davey
Create image

“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.”

RememberFoundChanceImpossibleEventsAnxietyCirclesPoisonCyclesMy ThoughtsTwistedRemarksPulseIvyHammeredPoison Ivy
Book:The Beast: A Journey Through Depression
Create image

“Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.”

YearsLightMightLastsFormNextImpossibleChangedCommunicationInternetDistanceSpeedDecadesSmokeDataMailFree SpeechPrimitiveReplacedSignalsSpeed Of LightSmoke Signals
Author:Steve Martin
Create image

“History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.”

IfsWellsLawFightingDifficultImpossibleInternetAssumptionMechanismConcreteRegulationFree SpeechStatus QuoMaintainingAdministrativeReconsiderationMaintaining The Status Quo
Author:Paul Baran
Create image