Possible Quotes

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.