#impossible

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bread #elegant #good #good meal #how

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. ↗

— James Schuyler

#artist #communicate #first #impossible #make

It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#hour #impossible #minute #music #show

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#come #half #i #impossible #know

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#being ignored #child #children #harshness #ignored

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

#friends #good-natured #hearth #high #impossible

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#decency #having #impossible #parliamentary #patience

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after! ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#after #another #being #chance #ever

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creativity #failure #fantasy #impossible #writers