With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.
Impossible Quotes
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
You can’t get blood out of a stone.
Boswell: It is impossible to refute it – Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, ‘I refute it thus.’
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” – “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
