#impossible

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#dinosaurs #dragons #impossible #wisdom #men

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#improbable #respect

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#existence #impossibility #impossible #literature #literature-quotes

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? ↗

— Damon Albarn

#around #cartoon #celebrity #change #culture

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#been #both #damned #everyone #heavy

Failure is impossible. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#failure #impossible

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#anyone #because #difficult #impossible #seems

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. ↗

— Richard Bach

#anyone #anything #be true #being #else

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#correct #difficult #everyone #his #impossible

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft