Possible Quotes - page 2

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. (James Clavell)
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. View quote
George Burns
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. View quote
James Branch Cabell
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. (Arthur Miller)
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things. View quote
René Descartes
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. View quote
William James
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. View quote
Frank Zappa
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. View quote
Colin Powell
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. (Freeman Dyson)
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
It is certain because it is possible. View quote
Tertullian