Impossibility Quotes

(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I like to learn about things. It was just a great time trying to conceive of the impossibility of that thing. I didn`t know anything about mining at the turn of the century in America. My boarding school in Kent didn`t exactly teach that.

(About finding time to relax) "Never. It`s an impossibility. I don`t even like to sleep. I feel as if there`s too much to do."

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won`t talk to you.

Caring for two premature babies and paying insurance, along with carrying the rest of household expenses on one income, made paying our hospital bills a financial impossibility.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.