The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky

I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
Michael Phelps

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve