Possibility Quotations | Page 2

Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

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.

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

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

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

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

My true self contains every possibility.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

I really believe there is the possibility of something great that can happen in the right hands.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

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

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

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.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

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

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

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.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

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.

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility.

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

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

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

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

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

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

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

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

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

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.