Rita Dove Quotes
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.Rita Dove
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck -
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
Patrick White -
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
Lance Armstrong -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Karl A. Menninger -
I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
Rachel Weisz
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Garrett Hardin -
I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
Han Fei -
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Malcolm McDowell -
I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
Larry David -
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
Eddie Redmayne -
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell -
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp -
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone -
In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
J. Michael Bishop -
It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Everything is possible to him that dares.
A. G. Spalding -
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
Frances Beinecke -
I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.
Simon Baker -
I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.
Blake Judd -
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove