There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.
The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
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.
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
In order to attain the impossible, you must attempt the absurd.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. --- We are but dust and shadow.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
the experience taught me: nothing is impossible.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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.
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
Music needs 3 things: Art, technique and experiences. Without them it is not possible to write music.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.