Impossible Quotes - Page 47

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

Nothing is impossible until you quit or die trying.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs.

We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by social movements, national image, and financial capital. The disappearance of the construction of the self of contemporary art makes it impossible to exist in the form of a subject. The subject of contemporary art that I speak of is a kind of naming event predicated upon the multiplicity of the environment. It includes politics, should have its own way of thinking, and can be perceived.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

No matter who uses chemical weapons against people and organisations, the international community must formulate a common policy and find a solution that would make the use of such weapons impossible for anyone.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.