If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.
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!
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
