"The major difference between a thing that might……" — Douglas Adams
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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493 Quotes by Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams has 493 quotes on this site.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete…
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity…
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it…
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the…
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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More Cannot Possibly Quotes
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one of 93 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
— Yasser Arafat
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made…
— 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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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we…
— Edmund Burke
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody;…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me,…
— Richard Avedon
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Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
— Winston Churchill
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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