Top 100 Is It Possible Quotes
#1. Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
Carlos Castaneda
#2. It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.
Paulo Coelho
#3. Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?
Arthur Rimbaud
#4. Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?
Sam Harris
#5. I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?
Leonora Carrington
#6. The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"
Thomas B. Macaulay
#7. Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir
#8. Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?
Martin Van Buren
#9. How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
Jojo Moyes
#10. Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#11. Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino ... Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.
Denis Leary
#12. How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
Lauren Oliver
#13. Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?
Bram Stoker
#14. I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?
Billy Beane
#15. How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?
Adele Parks
#16. Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.
Alan Arkin
#17. Is it possible to say what one really feels?
Leo Tolstoy
#18. That's it. I'm asking you, I'm really asking you - how is it possible that we aren't in a permanent state of mourning?
Peter Orner
#19. Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn't want to keep anything of her? It is. This
Elena Ferrante
#20. Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
Elena Ferrante
#21. How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.
Ralph P. Vander Heide
#22. To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
Roger L'Estrange
#23. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
#24. How is it possible for people to have so much power yet be so stupid?
Sara Poole
#25. Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
Todd Park
#26. Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests - the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect - answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary
Sidney Greidanus
#27. Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?
Robert Ardrey
#28. It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
Carlos Castaneda
#29. Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb?
Cyril Connolly
#30. How is it possible to bring order out of memory?
Beryl Markham
#31. Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton
#32. How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?
Gayle Forman
#33. By the Blessed Virgin ! Is it possible that your grace is so thickheaded and so short on brains that you cannot see that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#34. How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than an animal himself?
Haven Kimmel
#35. And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.
Anaxagoras
#36. Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#37. The way isn't a circle and never can't be a circle unless you repeat the same after the same. Is it possible to find something new?...
The way is spiral, and I will keep believing in this!
Deyth Banger
#38. Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
Howard Nemerov
#39. Ruri: Is it possible that Shuichiro gets more cuddly every day?
Hari: Indubitably ...
CLAMP
#40. How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.
Haruki Murakami
#42. I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
Anton Chekhov
#43. How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?
Paul Auster
#44. How is it possible to feel such a strong connection with somebody but miss the most vital piece of information about him?
Dahlia Adler
#45. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
Ernest Bramah
#47. How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.
Stacy Schiff
#48. How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#50. Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle?
Jorge Luis Borges
#51. But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
Alice Hoffman
#52. Love is higher than existence, love is the crown of existence; and how is it possible that existence should not be under its dominance?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
Edward Abbey
#55. Is it possible to want something so badly that you yearn for it and let it dominate your every thought, but at the same time it terrifies you and makes you tremble with fear at the very idea of it?
Cindy Vine
#56. Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#57. ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to
Suzanne Collins
#58. How is it possible that things so trivial and so easy to remedy can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours, and one so ready to demolish and pass over much greater difficulties?
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#59. Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?
Lysa TerKeurst
#61. But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine?
David Henry Hwang
#62. Kenji: Did you really love him...?
Juliette: I think so? I don't know. Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. But is it possible to believe in the devil, if one hasn't the slightest belief in God?' Stavrogin laughed out loud.
'Oh yes, entirely possible, that's as common as can be,' Tibon raised his eyes and smiled, too.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?
Katherine Boo
#65. How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?
Stephanie Vaughn
#66. Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.
Vincent Collins
#67. City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
Mary Augusta Ward
#68. Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
Leon Kass
#69. If every person is born with two sides, one good, one bad, is it possible that each side could love a different heart?
Jillian Peery
#70. How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman
a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?
Lillian B. Rubin
#71. To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.
Kim Il-sung
#72. Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good? ...
Azar Nafisi
#73. Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?"
Do you feel heroic?"
No."
Then you probably aren't.
Don DeLillo
#75. ... one thing we know for sure: everybody has to be somewhere. Is it possible you are somewhere you didn't fully realize?
Van Harden
#76. We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.
Thomas Pynchon
#77. Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.
King George V
#78. What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston S. Churchill
#79. Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
Emil Cioran
#80. Then let me ask you" - here it comes, the verbal aikido that will use my words to topple my beliefs - "is it possible to live your authentic life if you have inauthentic people around you?
Neil Strauss
#81. Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
Reza Aslan
#82. Is it possible to love someone too much?
You bet.
Ryan Adams
#83. And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?
Lauren Oliver
#85. Is it possible to fall in love with someone even when you're already in love with them? Because I'm pretty sure I just did.
Jessica Sorensen
#86. I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
D.H. Lawrence
#87. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.
James Nachtwey
#88. What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
Lewis H. Lapham
#89. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Abigail Adams
#90. Is it possible to be ticket for going too fast during speed dating?
Neil Leckman
#91. Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.
Max Lucado
#92. [On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.
Nora Ephron
#93. You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel
#95. Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?
Ann Patchett
#96. I asked for this, I thought, at the same time as I never asked for this. Is it possible to both
want and not want something at the same time?
S.J. Watson
#97. Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#98. Is it possible
for a heart to be exhausted?
Can it still be worn
when locked tight
in its cage?
My heart's beat
is a drum too loose,
a dull thud
where it once
was triumphant.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#99. How is it possible to have an emotion and its opposite at the same time?
Nicola Yoon
#100. Only by abolishing the situation of oppression is it possible to restore the love which that situation made impossible. If I do not live the world - if I do not love life - if I do not love people - I cannot enter into dialogue.
Paulo Freire
