Brandon Sanderson Quotes

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.

Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

Each and every player wants to win every game, but that's simply not possible.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.