Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose.

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.

The idea of the nightclub and gospel house music is interesting to me; I can't wait to hit that circuit! The Bible says, "Where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I also." When you sing, dance, or open yourself up to being fed by a performer or edified in the experience, there is this possibility that you're going to leave better than you got there.

The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities