Possibilities Quotes
1276 Possibilities quotes by 968 unique authors
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Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong…
— John Ashbery
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I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the…
— Richard Russo
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Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part…
— Pearl Cleage
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When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve…
— Naomi Wolf
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The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact…
— Aleister Crowley
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I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's…
— Susane Colasanti
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I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth…
— Stephen Fry
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
— Milan Kundera
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
— Salman Rushdie
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
— Janet Fitch
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Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for…
— Tsitsi Dangarembga
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It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
— Kate Morton
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And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that…
— Bob Dylan
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How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man…
— Elie Wiesel
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Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
— Doris Lessing
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When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
— Haruki Murakami
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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
— Milan Kundera
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