Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger…
— George Washington
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I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted…
— Margaret Sanger
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The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation.…
— Carl Jung
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I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a…
— Ronald Reagan
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No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart…
— John F. Kennedy
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship…
— Harold Pinter
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I cannot figure out what Dadaism is. But if the baroness is to be a keystone for it, then I think I can possibly know…
— Hart Crane
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WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE…
— James Baker
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At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could…
— Jess Walter
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.
— James A. Baldwin
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In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to…
— Don DeLillo
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Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one…
— Sinclair Lewis
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with…
— Akira Kurosawa
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For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly…
— James C. Collins
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A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling…
— B. C. Forbes
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