Possibility Quotes

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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
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time… — John O'Donohue
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
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds â€” and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man… — Elie Wiesel
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
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt,… — Lloyd Alexander
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. — Jack Kerouac
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
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
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and… — Gregory Maguire
the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending! — Pearl Cleage
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
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
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. — Frantz Fanon
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. — V.S. Naipaul
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened. — Mark Twain
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera
Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice. — Arthur Japin
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. — Brennan Manning
Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser,… — Douglas Adams

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