Quotes About Possible

#1. Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

Cynthia Kenyon

#2. I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow... and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#4. That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible.

Marshall McLuhan

#5. What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all.

D.R. Silva

#6. This type of psychological loneliness is perhaps felt most acutely when we are as close to another person's body as is humanly possible. As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote rather dramatically, The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Jesse Bering

#7. It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maimonides

#8. For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

Archie Fire Lame Deer

#9. For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

Eric Foner

#10. No man controlled his fate, a knowledge that came late in life. You just tried to muddle along from one point to another, making as few mistakes as possible.

Tom Clancy

#11. It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Jon Katz

#12. The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

John O'Donohue

#13. A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Clark Kerr

#14. If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Hildegard Knef

#15. We have had the opportunity to learn from the misjudgments of others, and we have been imbued with determination to use our time wisely, to cause as little pain as possible to others, to pay attention, to live and love with few regrets.

Jill Fredston

#16. More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ...

Andrei I. Shingarev

#17. Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#18. It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.

Tim Jackson

#19. It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

David Jeremiah

#20. But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

#22. I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

Maria Bartiromo

#23. Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

Herman Kahn

#24. When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

Moshe Sharett

#25. A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

Therese Anne Fowler

#26. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

#27. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When

Ann Radcliffe

#28. Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

Paulo Coelho

#29. Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible option that is not leaving you looking diabolical at funeral?"
Oh, for the love of God.

Lucy Holliday

#30. There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#31. It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed

Grace Paley

#32. No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

Henry Rollins

#33. Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Band? Simon inquired. "No, probably not.

Cassandra Clare

#34. It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

Flora Thompson

#35. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

Cesare Beccaria

#36. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

#37. Life is dessert - too brief to hurry ... "Where ever you are, be all there" is only possible with eucharisteo. Slow down and taste life, give thanks, and see God. Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. Eucharisteo keeps the focus. Page 77

Ann Voskamp

#38. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

Jason Katims

#39. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.

Eric Ries

#40. Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible.

DeVon Franklin

#41. We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

David Brion Davis

#42. Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.

Marie Lu

#43. When people say that they can only obey an authority in which they have total confidence, they are looking for an ideal father. . . . If the condition of obedience is emotional trust, the way is open to anarchy and the possible death of the community.

Jean Vanier

#44. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Vladimir Potanin

#45. My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Clint Eastwood

#46. Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

Stephen King

#47. The journey into death is such an important one that I believe each person deserves as much support as possible. The loved ones who decide to stay and vigil with the dying person receive, I believe, as much grace and blessing as the dying. It is truly a remarkable experience.

Megory Anderson

#48. No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

#49. An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

#50. Determination doesn't make it easier, it makes it possible.

Jean Charest

#51. Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

Paul Singer

#52. You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

Jimmy Page

#53. How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable ... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior ... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.

Steve Maraboli

#54. From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Eamon De Valera

#55. I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

Damian Woetzel

#56. Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

George S. Patton

#57. Have fun and play as many word games as possible.

Sophie Winkleman

#58. [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

#59. Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

Dennis Prager

#60. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Dean Kamen

#61. I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

Philippa Gregory

#62. Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

Wilfred Burchett

#63. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

H.G.Wells

#64. Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place - a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

Chip Walter

#65. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.

Miley Cyrus

#66. We fell madly in love, all the while pushing the boundaries of Chloe's sexuality. When a couple have undying trust, anything is possible.

Al Daltrey

#67. I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.

Jay Moore

#68. The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

Michael Craig-Martin

#69. Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#70. I am beginning to experience that an unconditional, total love of God makes a very articulate, alert, and attentive love for the neighbor possible.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#71. There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Cynthia Kenyon

#72. Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.

Amelia Gray

#73. I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.

Jack Johnson

#74. I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

#75. When a decision is inevitable you may as well take it as quick as possible so that you still have something left to deal with whatever consequences may arise.

Mark Lawrence

#76. You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#77. Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

Lynne Stewart

#78. If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

Ken Wyatt

#79. Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#80. It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Eric Metaxas

#81. Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

Jorge Luis Borges

#82. I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.

Katie Nolan

#83. City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Gavin Newsom

#84. I want to protect you while at the same time I want to shatter you," he murmured against my lips, "but only in the best way possible.

Samantha Young

#85. Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Denis Diderot

#86. It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Pierre Bonnard

#87. The first rule: Trust no one. Which leads to the second rule: The only way to stay alive as long as possible is to stay alone as long as possible. Now I've broken both.

Rick Yancey

#88. What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.

Danielle Steel

#89. Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Dave Obey

#90. After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

Wright Morris

#91. Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#92. A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#93. Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory.

Monica Johnson

#94. I couldn't love fashion more, like I don't think it's possible to love fashion more. I will say, since I've had my son ... he has surpassed that love

Rachel Zoe

#95. We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,

Ann Druyan

#96. Be YOU. There is nothing sexier than someone who is confident enough to be themselves, quirks and all. It is often your unique nature that separates you from the crowd in the best way possible for your romantic match to notice you.

Alaric Hutchinson

#97. Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

Sarada Devi

#98. Was it possible to physically feel the moment you lost your heart to someone? Because Lucie was fairly sure she'd just lost hers, and the spot where it should have been literally hurt.

Gina L. Maxwell

#99. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.

Virginia Woolf

#100. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Neil Gaiman