Best 960 quotes in «possibility quotes» category

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?

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

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.

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 want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

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