A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.
I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.
If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so difficult that it's almost impossible for foreigners to have an advantage over locals who have better political connections and who can manipulate the regulatory system much more effectively.
The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
It's impossible to have zero defects.
I have a rule against saying something is impossible unless it violates laws of physics.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
