Possible Quotes - page 5

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. (Voltaire)
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. View quote
Dalai Lama
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. View quote
Earl Nightingale
I get it now. I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between. View quote
Mia Farrow
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. View quote
Robert Fritz
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation. View quote
Jean Kerr
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible. (Charles Krauthammer)
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves. View quote
James Madison
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. View quote
Parmenides
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. View quote
George Eliot
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. (Aleksandr Vasilevsky)
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. View quote
Stephen Hawking
That which is possible is inevitable. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. View quote
John Ruskin