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ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.