Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines you to this other sound sphere. I know anyone facing this kind of dilemma could always just find another instrument more suitable to their needs, such as a sampler or synthesizer, but I figured I have a guitar and amp so why not just use them?

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.

I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

I feel like I go back and forth between being fairly fatalistic and really more hopeful about the possibilities of things changing. And will see how that goes in this election cycle. That will probably strongly affect how fatalistic I am.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.