IMPOSSIBLE in Classic Quotes

1  Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  Until he could be alone it was impossible to think this new development out.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1

3  The bluebells were so thick underfoot that it was impossible not to tread on them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2

4  He thought it must have been at some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to be certain.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

5  Even now, in spite of the gin, the dull ache in his belly made consecutive thought impossible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

6  So the performance continued to happen, once a week quite regularly, whenever it was not impossible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

7  The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

8  Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  What was slightly horrible, was that from the stream of sound that poured out of his mouth it was almost impossible to distinguish a single word.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  It would have been an even more incongruous possession than the glass paperweight, and impossible to carry home, unless it were taken out of its frame.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  It was a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as thought of; but the room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

12  The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

13  Winston had never been able to feel sure--even after this morning's flash of the eyes it was still impossible to be sure whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

14  It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

16  His whole appearance was that of a little boy grown large, so much so that although he was wearing the regulation overalls, it was almost impossible not to think of him as being dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirt, and red neckerchief of the Spies.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

17  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4