Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?

Kirk Cameron

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Arnold H. Glasow

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Auberon Herbert

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.

Chris Grayling

It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide.

Dave Itzkoff

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dorothea Brande

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

E. F. Schumacher

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

Elif Batuman

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Elizabeth McCracken

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Emil Cioran

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Geena Davis

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Graham Swift

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.

Graydon Carter

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

James Wolfe

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Jean de la Bruyere

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Jessica Valenti