Possibility Quotes

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

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.

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

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

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

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

We cannot complain to the possibility.

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

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.