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QUOTES including the word: "possible"

Great the Alexander:
  • There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

    • Kepler:
  • Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

    • Napoleon:
  • Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

    • Doris Lessing:
  • Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

    • Na Hye-sok:
  • the experience taught me: nothing is impossible.

    • Pavarotti:
  • The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

    • Poussin:
  • It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!

    • Arthur Clarke:
  • The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

    • Unamuno:
  • Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

    • Manos Xatzidakis:
  • Music needs 3 things: Art, technique and experiences. Without them it is not possible to write music.

    • Pavarotti:
  • For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

    • Horace:
  • Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. --- We are but dust and shadow.

    • Lautreamont:
  • It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

    • Heinrich Bell:
  • We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

    • Epictetus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

    • Goethe:
  • Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

    • Kierkegaard:
  • I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

    • Karl Popper:
  • It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

    • Yukio Mishima:
  • Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

    • Stanislaw Lem:
  • “Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

    • Cervantes:
  • In order to attain the impossible, you must attempt the absurd.

    • Skinner:
  • Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

    • Feuerbach:
  • The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.

    • Pavarotti:
  • I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

    • Charles Bukowski:
  • It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

    • Georges Braque:
  • It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible

    • Mikhail Bakunin:
  • The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.

    • Epicurus:
  • The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.

    • Luther:
  • To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

    • Walt Disney:
  • It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

    • John Milton:
  • Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.

    • Stendhal:
  • Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

    • Marcel Proust:
  • There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

    • Herman Melville:
  • It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

    • Stefan Zweig:
  • Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

    • Jose Martí:
  • Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

    • Rolland:
  • Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

    • Nelson Mandela:
  • It always seems impossible until it's done.

    • Goethe:
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

    • Aristophanes:
  • These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

    • L. Wittgenstein:
  • It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

    • Rilke:
  • The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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