Impossibilities Made Quotes & Sayings

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track. — Ciaran Hinds

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. — Ronald Reagan

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. — Jean De La Fontaine

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often. — Waris Ahluwalia

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved. — Ricky Martin

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like. — Anna Quindlen

I wished I could get inside
his head and crawl through the passageways
to the secret rooms until I found the one
labeled with my name. How could I shatter
that steel door and see what lay hidden
inside? — Wendy Higgins

And in that moment I experience a revelation.
I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: God does not exist. — Umberto Eco

The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. — Mary Shelley

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right. — Thomas A. Edison

For some in my audience, a tale is like a riddle, to be solved at the end. To them I sail the best tales leave some riddles unanswered and some mysteries hidden. Get used to it. For others the tale is a way of living vicariously, enjoying the adventures of others without having to go one step beyond their sphere of comfort. To them I say, what's stopping you from getting on a ship and sailing halfway around the world? Tales are meant to be an inspiration, not a substitute. — Karen Lord

Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my life, is my home. — Sean Mackin

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it. — Walter Lippmann