Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,…
— Grant Morrison
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The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term…
— Lawrence Lessig
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never…
— Carl Hiaasen
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The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is…
— James P. Hogan
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Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a…
— Carl Rogers
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The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm,…
— George Berkeley
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One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and…
— Oswald Spengler
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And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent,…
— Oswald Spengler
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The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than…
— Tony Buzan
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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why,…
— Bruno Rossi
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The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
— Pierre Trudeau
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
— Stephen Gardiner
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Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.
— William T. Piper
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as…
— Blaise Pascal
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
— Vladimir Bukovsky
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that…
— John Calvin
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And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but…
— Harvey Pekar
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