Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
