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. – Harry Frankfurt
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it. – Helen Hunt Jackson
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel
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. – Gustavo Dudamel
I’ve gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don’t work in other hands. It’s tricky. But any movie is tricky. It’s impossible to say, ‘This is what you do in any situation.’ – John Carpenter
The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines! – Jose Rizal
I like ‘Sponge Bob’ and ‘The Last Airbender.’ I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible. – Jackie Evancho
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference. – James Surowiecki
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. – Jacqueline Novogratz
It’s very liberating when you finally realize it’s impossible to make everyone like you. – John Mayer
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process. – John Lewis
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J. K. Rowling
I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: ‘Well, it’s not impossible.’ – Gemma Jones
‘Band on the Run’ is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again. – Jon Landau
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology. – Jamie Dimon
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. – Jules Verne
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. – Graham Greene
I think it’s nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. – Jami Attenberg
I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend. – John Malkovich
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now. – Julius Streicher
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. – Jesse Eisenberg
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn’t become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student. – John Lewis
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you’re going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form. – Jim Lee