Possimus Quotes & Sayings

MTV is known for their huge budget. — Chelsea Handler

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are. — Fulton J. Sheen

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life. — Pema Chodron

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him. — Tucker Carlson

No amount of wealth or power can ever make you a rich as a free man. — Adwitiya Borah

And so he sat, waited in the silent night, occasionally checkin his watch to stay awake, and letting his mind wanter once more. Across the decades, across the countries and across the wars. His family, his friends, the sex he'd shared and the love he'd known. Lust and laughter, anger and jealousy, and a thousand other things, and he smiled in the end. If they got him this time, at least he had lived and he regretted nothing. (Dan) — Aleksandr Voinov

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed. — Anna Quindlen

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation. — Robert Higgs

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles. — John Cowper Powys

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. — Voltaire

I'm wondering what to read next. — Roald Dahl

I barely know the guy, yet somehow I can feel that familiar clench of a fist gripping at my heart. I have to see him one more time, even if it's just to say good-bye. — Colleen Hoover

I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level. — Alison Moyet

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time. — Grenville Kleiser