Top 1200 Impossible Odds Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.

Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

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.

I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book, but you can never stay pure.

The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.

Pau has a game that's impossible to imitate. He's so finesse and so skilled, it's impossible to imitate. Honestly, I'm a big fan of the game. I've never seen a player his size who has so many moves, so many counters and it's impossible. His length, his size, his skills - I mean, you can't teach that.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees

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

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.

It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.

The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

Nothing is impossible. It can be downright difficult, but not impossible.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.