Quotes of: Possible-thing Keyword

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

Anatomy of a Misfit

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

The Age of Napoleon

That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.

Apprentice

For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.

The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!

The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

Hounded

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

House Rules

Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies…

If All the Rebels Die

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

Jude the Obscure

Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind.

Ruins

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The Rommel Papers

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?

Reflections on the Psalms

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

The Rosie Project

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.

Stay Awake