Possibility Quotes

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I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world… — Kate Forsyth
Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the… — Emma Goldman
I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun. — Ellen Hopkins
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet… — Augusten Burroughs
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true. — Alyson Noel
I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could… — Jacqueline Carey
Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye… — Maggie Stiefvater
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being,… — Joseph Campbell
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone… — Stephen Dobyns
as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. — William S. Burroughs
For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is… — Virginia Woolf
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… — Iain Banks
I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd… — Maggie Stiefvater
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. — Mark Z. Danielewski
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.… — Joseph Campbell
But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that… — Rachel Vincent
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form… — Neil Postman
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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