History Quotes / WeDoTheImpossible

-->-- ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs'' (1966)

'''Ray:''' Well, [[BadassBoast luckily, so do we]]. \\

-->--''ComicBook/TransformersGhostbusters #4''

''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]/ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters|IDW}} #4''

->"''Lost cause? Of course it's a lost cause! That's why we're'' here."

->'''Mercy:''' If I asked you to punch a hole in the sky, I thought you’d say "Apologies, it might take me a few years."\\

-->-- ''Literature/CradleSeries: Underlord''

->"Never promise them what's possible. Always promise the impossible. If you succeed, you've changed the limits of what's possible. And if you fail, well, it ''was'' impossible."

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-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7aUT13qtM Libera Me From Hell]]'', '''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''

->''The difficult I'll do right now\\
The impossible will take a little while''
-->-- '''Billie Holiday''', ''Crazy He Calls Me''

->I live to do the impossible.
-->-- ''Wally West'', '''Franchise/TheFlash [[Creator/GeoffJohns #188]]'''

->'''Thane Krios:''' [[SuicideMission Attacking the Collectors would require passing through the Omega-4 relay. No ship has ever returned from doing so.]]\\
'''Commander Shepard:''' They told me it was impossible to get to Ilos, too.\\
'''Thane Krios:''' A fair point. You've built a career on performing the impossible.
-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->Hey, I'm Dr. Rodney [=McKay=], all right? "Difficult" takes a few seconds; "impossible," a few minutes.
-->-- '''[[InsufferableGenius Dr. Rodney [=McKay=]]]''', ''Series/StargateAtlantis Brain Storm ''

->Thanks to the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, the impossible is easy.
-->-- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'' trailer

->But I'm a Battle Schooler. We had classes in doing the impossible. I got A's.
-->-- '''Ambul''', ''Literature/ShadowPuppets''

->'''The Doctor:''' It's impossible! \\
'''River Song:''' ''How'' impossible?\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[ScottyTime Two minutes.]]
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho''

->Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. ''That's'' why we're aboard her.
-->--'''James T. Kirk''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Return to Tomorrow"

->'''Phineas''': Can we help?\\
'''Lawrence''': Well, I'm afraid not, unless you can perform miracles.\\
'''Phineas''': ...what's your budget?
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together"

->This isn't Mission Difficult, Mr. Hunt. It's Mission Impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you.
-->-- '''Swanbeck''', ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''

->If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways?
-->-- ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''

->Impossible is our stock in trade, and success is what we deliver.
-->-- [[BadassCreed Rogue Squadron's motto]], ''Literature/XWingSeries''

->"Never promise them what's possible. Always promise the impossible. If you succeed, you've changed the limits of what's possible. And if you fail, well, it ''was'' impossible."
-->--'''[[ConMan Moist von Lipwig]]''', ''Literature/GoingPostal''

->'''CASE:''' It's not possible.
->'''Cooper:''' No. It's ''necessary.''
-->-- ''{{Film/Interstellar}}''

->"Impossible? Is it possible to build [[FlyingCar a car that can fly]] faster than any other has been known to move? Leaping 2000 miles in under five minutes is impossible. ''We'' are the ones who make the impossible real."
-->--'''[[MadScientist Chevalier Yves Mercure]]''', ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Tradition Book: Sons of Ether (revised)''

->He knew what he had to do. It was, of course, an impossible task. But he was used to them. Dragging [[ReducedToRatburgers a rat]] all the way [[MouseWorld from the wood to the hole]] had been an impossible task. But it wasn't impossible to drag it a little way, so you did that, and then you had a little rest, then you dragged it a little way again...
->The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each one of them into tricky jobs, and each one of them...
-->--''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy Truckers]]''

->'''Colonel Benson:''' Mr President, my men are doing everything possible!
->'''The President:''' I don't want the possible, I want the impossible!
-->-- ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs'' (1966)

->"I'm the man who makes the impossible possible."
-->--'''Mu La Flaga''', Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED

->"What I'm trying to remind [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} her]] of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of."

->"Kitten, what I'm saying is that, sometimes, shit happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who're you gonna call?"
-->-- '''Peter Venkman''', ''Film/GhostbustersII''

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->We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
-->-- variously attributed

->The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte'''

->Impossible is not a fact. Impossible is an opinion.
-->-- '''Mohammed Ali'''

-->--'''[[ConMan Moist von Lipwig]]''', ''Discworld/GoingPostal''

-->-- [[BadassCreed Rogue Squadron's motto]], ''ComicBook/XWingSeries''

-->-- Ambul, ''Literature/ShadowPuppets''

-->-- Ambul, ''[[Literature/EndersGame Shadow Puppets]]''

-->-- ''Wally West'', '''Franchise/TheFlash [[Creastor/GeoffJohns #188]]'''

-->-- ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7aUT13qtM Libera Me From Hell]]'', '''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''

-->-- ''Wally West'', '''TheFlash [[GeoffJohns #188]]'''

-->-- Ambul, ''[[EndersGame Shadow Puppets]]''

-->-- ''PhineasAndFerb'', "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together"

'''Commander Shepard:''' They also told me it was impossible to get to Ilos.\\