Possibility Quotes

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

... 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.

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.

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?

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

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.

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

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.

We cannot complain to the possibility.

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

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

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.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.

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

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

I dwell in possibilities .

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

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

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.