A Quote by George Santayana

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Spanish - Novelist
December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen

The impossible I do immediately, miracles take a little longer

David Berglas

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Jim Butcher

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.

Tori Murden

The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.

Paul Lemoine

Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.

Kathleen Robertson

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Delphine de Girardin

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.

Theodore Zeldin

My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

Kangana Ranaut

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

Ambrose

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

Robert M. Pirsig

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep

Jay-Z

If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.