Diana Nyad
Long-distance swimmer
"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it."
Impossible Situations quotes
Impossible Situations
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself"
Gaddis Smith
Historian
"President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it."
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
"To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations."
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