Quotes of: Possible-thing Keyword

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Liberalism and Its Critics

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

The Lost Garden

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.

Links

Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world

Longbourn

My God is the one who exists apart from all of men’s agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

The Lace Reader

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

The Last Vampire

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

The Mayor of Casterbridge

This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn't think could be possible.

Matteo's Challenge

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

Spiritus

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all.

Surrender

In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?

Second Verse

Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something ―that it possible, that it significant, that it real.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Satisfaction is a powerful sleep aid, and after the day I had yesterday, how could I not be content? Uncertainty has returned to my life, and I welcome the possibilities.

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