Quotes About What Can Be

#1. Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Jules Verne

#2. Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.

Thomas Sowell

#3. How does distance look? is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.

Anne Carson

#4. Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Gary Bauer

#6. Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

Paula Scher

#7. What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

Jan Peacock

#8. I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Jim Cooper

#9. It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a
tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story
to remember innocence, to record effect- and so to describe
the limits, to say what can be done without damage.

Wendell Berry

#10. Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Jane Hirshfield

#11. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin

#12. There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Eric Butterworth

#13. Now since in so many Things they ... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?

Christiaan Huygens

#14. Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle.

#15. Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Susan George

#16. Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?

Eden Phillpotts

#17. It is the theory which decides what can be observed

Albert Einstein

#18. The sense of the world must lie outside the world ... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about ... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

Walter Lippmann

#20. I'm very curious why people in school all the time from 2-3 class up to the last 6-7 they talk about football. What can be said??
Sharing about a team few sentences, who has won, and rought said that's all. But why people stretch it like a Turkish delight with the same end???

Deyth Banger

#21. I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes ... I believe in something more.

Shiloh Walker

#22. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Catharine MacKinnon

#23. What can be handsomer for a picture than our river scenery now? Take this view from the first Conantum Cliff.

John R. Stilgoe

#24. Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#25. In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.

Ryokan

#26. I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

Sean Penn

#27. We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

Denis Waitley

#28. Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Josh Billings

#29. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed but what CAN BE observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. And often those expectations get in the way.

Michael Crichton

#30. Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#31. When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Dave Brubeck

#32. We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

Doug Aitken

#33. What can be more astounding than the unfounded doubts and fears of God's favoured people?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#34. As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Barack Obama

#35. One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

Mario Bunge

#36. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

Tristen Gaspadarek

#37. Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.'
'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.

Mary Balogh

#38. The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Jose Saramago

#39. Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.

Jennifer Worth

#40. What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Horace

#41. What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#42. I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Jodi Kantor

#43. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

C.S. Lewis

#44. Take it and make it extraordinary, because beautiful isn't always something noticeable, it's often what can be seen but isn't noticed.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#45. It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

Matthieu Ricard

#46. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

Rudolf Flesch

#47. What can be shown, cannot be said.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#48. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

#49. All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#50. What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Claude Monet

#51. I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?

Eugene Mirman

#52. But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world. -Bridgette

Michele Jaffe

#53. I well understand why analysts demand high payment, for what can be more tedious than listening to another person recount his dreams?

Truman Capote

#54. Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Emile M. Cioran

#55. I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?

Philip Larkin

#56. The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Woody Allen

#57. The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#58. For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

Richard Dawkins

#59. If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

John Gurdon

#60. Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.

Ernst Junger

#61. It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

Albert Einstein

#62. Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry

Ezra Pound

#63. What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.

Marty Rubin

#64. People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians ...

Narendra Modi

#65. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

Carol Cox

#66. What can be more exciting than that?" "Fighting ShadowClan

Erin Hunter

#67. The most astonishing observation one makes today is that people surrender everything in the face of nothingness: their own judgment, their humanity, their neighbors. Where this fear is exploited without scruple, there are no limits to what can be achieved.[130]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#68. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Mark Twain

#69. History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Theodore White

#70. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Salmon P. Chase

#71. Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.

Peter Joseph

#72. With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?'

Paul Allen

#73. There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#74. Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

Ellen Langer

#75. There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Hillary Clinton

#76. What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#77. In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Elinor Ostrom

#78. Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#79. Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.

Kelly Brook

#80. Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

Leopold Stokowski

#81. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?

Voltaire

#82. What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

Albert Einstein

#83. it's best just to focus on what can be done to prepare for the situation. You prepare for the worse, and hope for the best.

Jonathan Olson

#84. A kid is what you feed it,
plus from that what can be gathered.

Will Advise

#85. I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.

Suze Orman

#86. Stop looking back on your life and wishing it was different because pursuing that kind of mental activity will never lead to any worthy accomplishment. Think about what 'can be' rather than what 'was'.

Hina Hashmi

#87. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

#88. What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

Henry David Thoreau

#89. I think what can be most shameful or embarrassing is when our bodies broadcast a secret we'd prefer no one to know. This is why I hate rashes, in particular face rashes.

Heidi Julavits

#90. Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#91. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#92. Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

#93. If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Tadao Ando

#94. The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

Marcus Aurelius

#95. I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bee Wilson

#96. For what can be above the man who is above fortune?

Seneca.

#97. His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!

Charles Dickens

#98. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Joel Osteen

#99. Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Umberto Eco

#100. They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

George MacDonald