Impossible

Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work.
- Bette Davis, 1908 - 1989

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
- Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson

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 or repair.
- Douglas Noel Adams, 1952 - 2001

When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. In short, when he is impotent he proves to us that the thing is easy; and when he is omnipotent he proves that it is impossible.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

It is not a lucky word, this "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouth.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
- Aristotle

All things are possible until they are proved impossible. And even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
- Pearl S. Buck

Faith sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D. Brandeis

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

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Clarke's Second Law

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
- Theodore Roethke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Clarke's First Law

Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning