Possible Quotes
8111 quotes by 4730 authors
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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win…
— Mike Tyson
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of…
— George Soros
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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of…
— William Rehnquist
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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires…
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way…
— Orison Swett Marden
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If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.
— Dan B. Allender
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for…
— Philip Pullman
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Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
— Theodor Adorno
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
— Fareed Zakaria
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of…
— Margery Allingham
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me.…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
— Richard Sibbes
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life…
— Don DeLillo
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I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need…
— Amanda Palmer
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
— Zeno of Citium
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