Impossible Quotes - Page 54

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.

It's impossible for me, without getting a big wide shot of Manhattan, to convince people that it's another day. But if we go to a commercial and we come up and people are in different clothes, you know it's another day.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.