Possible Quotes

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

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.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.