All Quotes

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
‐‐ Hale Irwin

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
‐‐ David Deida

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
‐‐ Marc Faber

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
‐‐ Imre Lakatos

The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
‐‐ George Osborne

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
‐‐ Drew Bledsoe

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

The possession of anything begins in the mind.
‐‐ Bruce Lee

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
‐‐ Frederick Law Olmsted

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
‐‐ Anais Nin

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
‐‐ George Richards Minot

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
‐‐ Jules Verne

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
‐‐ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
‐‐ Michelle Williams

The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
‐‐ Joel Gretsch

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
‐‐ Frank Knight

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
‐‐ Paul Allen

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.
‐‐ Bradley James

The post of honour is a private station.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
‐‐ Yulia Tymoshenko

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
‐‐ Octavian Paler

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.
‐‐ Joe Baca

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
‐‐ Joe Baca

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell