„It was impossible to win against Capablanca; against Alekhine it was impossible to play.“

„It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, książka Message in a Bottle

Źródło: Message in a Bottle

„It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.“

—  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions 1792 - 1878

Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831).

„It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. “

—  Richard M. DeVos American businessman 1926 - 2018

„Morphy and Capablanca had enormous talent, they are two of my favorites. Steinitz was very great too. Alekhine was great, but I am not a big fan of his. Maybe it’s just my taste. I’ve studied his games a lot, but I much prefer Capablanca and Morphy. Alekhine had a rather heavy style, Capablanca was much more brilliant and talented, he had a real light touch. Everyone I’ve spoken to who saw Capablanca play still speak of him with awe. If you showed him any position he would instantly tell you the right move. When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties – before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since. Capablanca really was fantastic. But even he had his weaknesses, especially when you play over his games with his notes he would make idiotic statements like 'I played the rest of the game perfectly.“

—  Роберт Фишер American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943 - 2008

But then you play through the moves and it is not true at all. But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt.
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_35_3.MP3

„It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.“

—  Rafael Nadal Spanish tennis player 1986

After beating five time champion Roger Federer in the 2008 Men's Wimbledon Final

„It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.“

—  John Jay Chapman American author 1862 - 1933

Źródło: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1

„It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.“

—  Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

2008 comment quoted in "Fury over Richard Dawkins's burka jibe as atheist tells of his 'visceral revulsion' at Muslim dress", Daily Mail (10 August 2010) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301750/Fury-Richard-Dawkinss-burka-jibe-atheist-tells-revulsion-Muslim-dress.html

„God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.“

—  Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892

„It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks“

—  Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

1910s
Kontekst: It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

„I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.“

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us
impossibly.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

"Beasts Bounding Through Time" (1986)

„The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible.“

—  Pope Pius XII 260th Pope of the Catholic Church 1876 - 1958

Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P511029.HTM http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
Kontekst: Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no "indication" at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life, that is, a disposal which aims at its destruction, whether as an end in itself or as a means to achieve the end, perhaps in no way at all illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit. The direct destruction of so-called "useless lives," already born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years ago, can in no wise be justified. Therefore, when this practice was initiated, the Church expressly declared that it was against the natural law and the divine positive law, and consequently that it was unlawful to kill, even by order of the public authorities, those who were innocent, even if on account of some physical or mental defect, they were useless to the State and a burden upon it. The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible. We have no need to teach you in detail the meaning and the gravity, in your profession, of this fundamental law. But never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every "indication" the faultless law of God.

„Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Possibility http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possibility-3/
From the poems written in English

„We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.“

—  Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Źródło: Life, the Universe and Everything

„Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.“

—  Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer

XVII. That the World is by nature Eternal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos

„One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.“

—  Haruki Murakami, książka The Elephant Vanishes

Źródło: The Elephant Vanishes

„We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.“

—  Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012

„If he is playing very good, I have to play unbelievable. If not, it’s impossible, especially if he’s playing with good confidence. When he’s 100 percent, he’s playing in another league. It’s impossible to stop him. I fight. I fight. I fight. Nothing to say. Just congratulate him.“

—  Roger Federer Swiss tennis player 1981

Rafael Nadal, after losing to Federer in the Shanghai Masters Cup semifinal, Nov. 17, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/sports/tennis/18tennis.html?ref=sports http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844884/

„Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.“

—  Mao Zedong, książka On Contradiction

On Contradiction (1937)