Possibilities Quotes
1276 Possibilities quotes by 968 unique authors
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
— Ali Smith
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I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities,…
— Stephen Batchelor
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And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
— Margaret Atwood
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First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions…
— Michel de Certeau
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I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would…
— V.S. Naipaul
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made…
— Aberjhani
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The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea…
— Charles de Lint
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There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world…
— Rachel Cohn
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a…
— Anne Lamott
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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to…
— Dean Koontz
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
— Ellen Hopkins
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I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from…
— Haruki Murakami
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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying…
— Bruno Schulz
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A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one…
— Steven Brust
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As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous…
— Alice Munro
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls…
— Jay-Z
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They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
— George R. R. Martin
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But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but…
— Tom Wolfe
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And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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