Possibility Quotations | Page 4

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

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

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

science never threatens God - it opens up more 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.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

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.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

It is certain because it is possible.

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

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

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

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

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

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Is it possible that since I hunt, I may be hunting for the life of my Savior and the blood of the Lamb of God? I have fought against many differing sorts of conscience. Is it beyond all possibility and hazard that I have not fought against God, and that I have not persecuted Jesus in some of them?

The possibilities are endless, so never be discouraged by a setback, no matter how big.

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

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything...

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."