Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.
TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.
Most shows get dumped by the networks, do a couple of years in syndication, then they're in the vault. 'Mission: Impossible' has never been off the screen.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
I was told it couldn't be done. My dream was impossible. But on March 3, 2016, after spending 10 years in a wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down, I took my first steps without assistance. That was no easy task.
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.