All Quotes

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
‐‐ Epicurus

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
‐‐ Molly Ivins

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
‐‐ Alice Miller

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.
‐‐ Susanna Moore

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
‐‐ Jerzy Kosinski

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
‐‐ Jon Katz

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
‐‐ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
‐‐ Edsger Dijkstra

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
‐‐ Harry A. Blackmun

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
‐‐ John Jay Hooker

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.
‐‐ Diana Lopez

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.
‐‐ Max Baucus

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
‐‐ Jon Evans

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
‐‐ Leland Stanford

It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
‐‐ Fred Allen

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

It is probably the case that some regulation of financing will make crises less likely, and I would say higher capital requirements are an almost fail-safe way to make banks safer. But there are a lot of other things that may not be doing that, and so we need to be careful about sort of, like, rushing to one conclusion or another.
‐‐ Greg Ip

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.
‐‐ Marly Youmans

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
‐‐ Eberhard Weber

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
‐‐ John H. Reagan

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
‐‐ Giordano Bruno

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.
‐‐ Giordano Bruno

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
‐‐ Mel Martinez

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
‐‐ Orlando Gibbons

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
‐‐ Chester A. Arthur

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.
‐‐ John Niven