“It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.”
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
1960s
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.”
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
1960s
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882) Italian general and politician
Il giorno in cui i contadini saranno educati nel vero, i tiranni e gli schiavi saranno impossibili sulla terra.
Alla Società del Tiro in Ganzo, Caprera, 29 August 1864, in Scritti politici e militari, ricordi e pensieri inediti, p. 356.
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician
2014
Source: [Ненко, Илья, Лучшие цитаты Виталия Кличко — в честь 50-летия главного оратора планеты MAXIM, https://www.maximonline.ru/guide/luchshie-citaty-vitaliya-klichko-v-chest-50-letiya-glavnogo-oratora-planety-id668472/, 2022-06-13, www.maximonline.ru, ru]
Source: * Кличко: У меня есть 2 зама, 4 из которых лежат в кабинете ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDpYwg5HD0 ** en ** 2022-06-13
Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
“This ain't no tall order, this is nothin to me
Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week”
Jay-Z (1969) American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executive, songwriter, record producer and investor
Diamonds from Sierra Leone (note)
Late Registration (2005)
James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American historian
Source: An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (1902), Ch. 1 : The Historical Point of View, p. 3
Context: It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens. <!-- It is true that a single event, such as an important battle which results in the loss of a nation's independence, may produce an abrupt change in the government. This in turn may encourage or discourage commerce and industry and modify the language and the spirit of a people. Yet these deeper changes take place only very gradually. After a battle or a revolution the farmer will sow and reap in his old way, the artisan will take up his familiar tasks, and the merchant his baying and selling. The scholar will study and write and the household go on under the new government just as they did under the old. So a change in government affects the habits of a people but slowly in any case, and it may leave them quite unaltered.
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) British physicist
My Philosophy, p. 125 https://books.google.com/books?id=pC28TnExGEEC&pg=PA115 <br class="br">My Philosophy (1933)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ogni giorno, ciò che mi stimola ad andare oltre... è raggiungere quello che da sempre, per tutti, è considerato impossibile.
Source: prevale.net