The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'
I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.
When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.
When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
For highly indebted governments, low interest rates are critical to keep debt levels sustainable and ease pressure to restructure debt and recapitalize banks. The shift to a high sovereign-debt-yield equilibrium would make it impossible to achieve fiscal balance.
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.