"How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"
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"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."
"A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible."
"It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her."
"I believe things cannot make themselves impossible."
"All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible."
"If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have."
"Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you"
"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."
"It is either easy or impossible."
"True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion."
"It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw."
"It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it."
"I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity"
"You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something."
"It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible."
"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
"To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular."
"There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much."
"Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible."