Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can…
— Phyllis Bottome
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The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention…
— Bob Toski
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You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other…
— Dave Barry
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980…
— Thomas Boswell
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
— William James
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
— James Madison
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best…
— Laozi
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I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion.…
— Petria Thomas
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I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to…
— Stephen King
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a…
— George S. Patton
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the…
— Mark Twain
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Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol…
— Nick Offerman
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
— Oscar Wilde
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
— Oscar Wilde
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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