We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II

Love without conversation is impossible.
Mortimer Adler

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Gottfried Leibniz

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
Gottfried Leibniz

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
Paul Cezanne

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
Ezra Taft Benson

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Dolley Madison

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Charlie Watts

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.
Isak Dinesen

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes