Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get…
— John Green
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Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be…
— Craig Ferguson
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You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge…
— Kevin Powers
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From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and…
— Marianne Williamson
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It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
— David Levithan
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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that…
— Lauren Oliver
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Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
— Robin Hobb
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When you could discern a real threat from everything else, it was called caution. When you couldn't, it was called paranoia. ... You cannot separate…
— Craig Clevenger
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
— Judith Butler
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This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear,…
— David Icke
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There…
— Holly Black
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He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
— James A. Baldwin
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Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
— Jacques Derrida
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Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered.…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be…
— Ernest Becker
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When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that…
— Stephen King
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Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see…
— David Levithan
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