Possible Quotes
8111 Possible quotes by 4730 unique authors
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When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
— Eda LeShan
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
— E. V. Lucas
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I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to…
— Jamie Zawinski
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It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of…
— Dorothea Brande
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
— John Boyd Orr
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The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
— Hakim Bey
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Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.
— John H. Groberg
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The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.
— Iris Apfel
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It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is…
— Mary Parker Follett
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If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
— William Feather
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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a…
— Timothy Keller
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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
— Randy Pausch
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Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
— Randy Pausch
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The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
— Alain de Botton
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Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws…
— Dziga Vertov
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The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from…
— Wayne Teasdale
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Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a…
— Robert Noyce
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What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead…
— Jeanne de Salzmann
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There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it…
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
— Dennis Gabor
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