Possibility Quotes

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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
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
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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live… — Barbara Kingsolver
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. — Wallace Stegner
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
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
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities. — Nicholas Sparks
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the… — Peter Straub
Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more.… — Sloane Crosley
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to… — Mark Epstein
You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my… — Sarah Dessen
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. — George R. R. Martin
Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who… — Jim Butcher
Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on… — Aryn Kyle
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility.… — Jorge Luis Borges
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this… — David Foster Wallace
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
In Terezaâ€™s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:… — Milan Kundera
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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