It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.
Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.
As human beings we want to be as comfortable as possible, that's human nature and when you do that you live a really really boring life.
If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.
True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
