Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling…
— Clive Barker
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I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
— Niall Ferguson
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We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a…
— Winston Churchill
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For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
— C.S. Lewis
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[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,…
— Anna Kingsford
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
— Michel de Montaigne
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people…
— Charles Lamb
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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
— Ovid
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Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other…
— Peg Bracken
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It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that…
— Nora Ephron
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What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
— Timothy Keller
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Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you…
— Andy Weir
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There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers…
— Channing Tatum
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Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
— William McFee
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or…
— Wallace Stevens
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