If it is indeed impossible – or at least very difficult – to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
We do nods to Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
Failure is impossible.
It’s impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don’t become a dictator.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Everybody who’s played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It’s impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn’t buy any balls. We really didn’t have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.
It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
I do believe in living out your own time, unless it’s absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel – my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I’m thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it’s hilariously silly.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth – that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it’s almost impossible to pick one.
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as ‘impossible’; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
Despite Japan’s desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
I had to learn to dance for ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
It’s important to say that actors can’t act alone, it’s impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
I created ‘Dinner: Impossible’ with a guy named Bryan O’Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Isn’t one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it’s basically impossible to use text to show that.
I like to be funny. I can’t stay all the time focused, disciplined, controlled. Behaviour like that is impossible. If the players are too nervous before a game, I have to relax them, calm them.
It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy… but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what’s impossible.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person’s biography.
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.
Change always seems impossible until it’s inevitable.
