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“My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.”

States Would Be Opinion Impossible Generations Prove Conviction Experiments Spontaneous Chimera

Author:Louis Pasteur

“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.”

People Way Needs Years Kind Play Problem Earth Roles Impossible Produce Resources Accounts Billions Improvement Best Way Technological Outlines Renewable Resources

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”

Should Grace Impossible Mercy

Book:Revelations of divine love

Source: Revelations of divine love

“That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.”

Wells Impossible All Things Thee

Book:The Showings of Divine Love

Source: The Showings of Divine Love

“You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.”

People Can Do Support Impossible Amount Intelligent Planning Pizza Hardworking Impossible Things

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.”

Knows Important Spiritual Law Life Is Process Realizing Principles Impossible Invisible Intangible Process Of Life

Book:One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth

Source: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth

“My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.”

Life Is Next Views Impossible Convince

Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."”

Thinking Want Character Speak Decision Roles Impossible Models Conscious Flaws Role Models Defects Positive Things Positive Role Model Defects Of Character

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.”

Numbers Impossible Band Twenties Teens Survived Listening To Music Drummer Garage Guitarist

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“You know, what is team chemistry? My opinion is when you have enough people who care about winning and enough people who losing affects. That's what chemistry means to me. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, but you're going to have enough people on the same page. It's almost impossible, I think, to get everyone on the same page, but it's gotta mean something to you.”

People Thinking Knows Mean Enough Care Winning Opinion Impossible Team Pages Losing Chemistry Who Cares

Author:Derek Jeter

“How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!”

Two Shows Kids Night Wife Impossible Mom Supposed To Be Every Night

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)”

Littles Important Film Three Sound Space Impossible Influence Aspect Thirds Track Versions Genre Echoes Vocal Garage Sample Soundtracks Reggae Methodology Dance Music Jamaicans Sampling Dubstep

Author:Kode9

“Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.”

Artist Can Do Impossible Limits

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.”

Knows Order Difficult Impossible

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.”

Certain Turns Understanding Worry Audience Impossible Twists Catching Twists And Turns

Author:David Cronenberg

“I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.”

Feels Book Matter Impossible Fans Please No Matter What Comic Comic Book Hardcore

Author:Megan Fox

“You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.”

Shows Guy Perfect Nice Impossible Thank God Perfect Guy

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!"”

Persons I Can Problem Impossible Heard Figures Solve Reactions Workplace Physicist

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.”

People Mind Used Actors Enjoy Watches Struggle Impossible Streets Train Reactions Behaviour Looking Back

Author:Javier Bardem

“Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.”

Kind Persons Real Goal Known Impossible Materials Source All Kinds Nuance Real You

Author:Anthony Mackie

“When I turn in my list, obviously every record was important to me. I didn't just put records on there to put records on there. I was excited that "All I Do Is Win" could go on there because you hear it at the end of the game and that represents victory. That's undeniable. You can't hate on that, it's impossible.”

Important Ends Hate Turns Games Winning Records Impossible Goes On Victory Excited Lists

Author:DJ Khaled

“I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.”

Ifs Feels Kind Important Impossible

Author:Woody Allen

“Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.”

People Real Hard Actors Quality Roles Impossible Actresses Settling

Author:Holly Hunter

“Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.”

Want Courses Understanding Hours Half Impossible Research Boundaries There Is Hope

Author:Angela Bassett

“I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all the time. I read very, very fast. People say, "Larry, it's statistically impossible for you to have read that many books."”

People Knows Years Book Lasts Impossible Larry

Author:Larry Winget

“I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.”

Thinking Book Easy Impossible Damn Bookstores Easy To Get

Author:Larry Winget

“I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.”

Thinking Character Levels Roles Impossible Models Flaws Role Models Defects Defects Of Character

Author:Curtis Jackson

“It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.”

Giving Humans Happens Human Beings Impossible Devil Claims Aids Flight Aviation

Author:Roger Bacon

“It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.”

Years Has Beens Views Impossible Magic Modern Method Ancient Point Of View Strikes Flight Isolation Aviation Sparks Aircraft Collision Accessibility Modern History

Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT

Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT

“I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Believe Book Happens Motivational I Believe Impossible Tools Disappear Diverse

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.”

Believe Enough Effort Impossible Determination Don't Believe

Author:Richard Branson

“With acting, the stark reality for women is that it's nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress. Either you're fighting your age, or you're having to own it in a way that feels inelegant, or you're Meryl Streep and you're an angel from God.”

Way Feels Reality Age Fighting Acting Impossible Fashion Angel Actresses Elegant Starks Stark Reality

Author:Rashida Jones

“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.”

Humans Understanding Ability Worry Impossible Stage Pure Competition Notion Track Complicated Complexity Exploits Physiology Accentuate Complexity Of Human

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”

“It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought that I was doing this" but basically what they really want, especially if they wrote it, is they want you to do it as they imagined it. It's virtually impossible.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Waiting Know How Impossible Minutes Directors Bizarre

Author:Christopher Walken

“It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.”

Thinking Play Audience Impossible

Author:Christopher Walken

“Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.”

People World Writing Littles Impossible Havens Degrees Resources Pioneering

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.”

People Realizing Levels Impossible Reaching Notoriety Famous Writers Foibles

Author:Kirby Wright

“I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.”

Thinking World Want Believe War Impossible Nuclear Nuclear War

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Wish Imagine Impossible Wish You

Author:Wim Wenders

“If you tried to make a show for every person's particular interest, it'd be impossible because everyone is going to consume it the way they want to. All you can do is try to do an hour that makes sense for all.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Persons Shows Interest Can Do Hours Impossible Particular Make Sense

Author:Scott Van Pelt

“The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.”

Doe Impossible Application Ahimsa

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.”

Impossible Ahimsa Intertwined

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

Done Science Impossible Possibility Impossibility Impossible Things

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.”

Men Made God Today Names Justice Impossible Distinction

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“What is impossible with man is child's play with God.”

Men Children Play God Impossible

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.”

God Grace Impossible Surrender Mastery

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.”

World Years Children Has Beens Done Whole Impossible Disease Killing Population Harm Parasites Malaria

Author:Bill Gates

“It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.”

Waiting Impossible Prejudice Rounds Scales Golden Priests Sentiments Hinduism Superstitions Custodians

Book:None High: None Low

Source: None High: None Low

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