Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do.
I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.
It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.
I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.
You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
It is impossible to please all the world.
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
