Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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 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 am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

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

If there are possibilities for strengthening investments, they will not fail because of us. Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we need to do more and talk less.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of 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.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.