Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

I personally have no need to make a strict definition of the medium. I am more interested in what can be done with comics than how it can be described, and if I want to remain truly open to the creative possibilities, the less I define the medium, the better.

I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

It's the hardening of these narratives that makes peace so difficult. If each side can see the narrative, the claims that the other has, then there is a much more likely possibility of making a resolution. But what I see is the opposite. There is a total disclaiming of the validity of the other side, and talk that I find really unsettling, the kind of chatter you get from ultra-right Israelis and Hamas is of annihilation. In that kind of dialogue, there's no way to move toward peace.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

I've heard from lots of organizers in the [Bernie] Sanders campaign, both paid and unpaid. I have heard from lots of them. We have not heard from the Sanders campaign. I do not expect to hear from the Sanders campaign. But you know, it's not over until it's over. So we remain open to that possibility. As Bernie said himself, it's not about a man, it's a movement.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.