Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
— Anthony Burgess
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
— Charles de Lint
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Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We…
— Jonah Lehrer
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
— David Foenkinos
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One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay…
— Dan Savage
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Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:…
— Sigmund Freud
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She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?
— Nora Roberts
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Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her…
— Paullina Simons
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Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your…
— Miranda Kerr
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The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
— Stephen King
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She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
— Gail Carriger
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Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or…
— Jonathan Evison
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Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by…
— Rita Dove
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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have…
— Paulo Coelho
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When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And…
— Mary Oliver
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we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
— Paulo Coelho
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to…
— V.S. Naipaul
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