Possible Quotes - page 3

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. (T. E. Lawrence)
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. View quote
Anne Rice
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. View quote
David Ogilvy
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. View quote
Cesare Pavese
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. View quote
Edward Hopper
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
Robert Browning
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. View quote
George Santayana
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble)
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. View quote
J. L. Austin
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. View quote
John Dos Passos
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. (Bertrand Russell)
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. View quote
James A. Garfield
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. View quote
Alan Watts
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing. View quote
Raymond Williams
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