Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1911 authors
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
— Agnes Repplier
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Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality,…
— Che Guevara
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Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
— David Landes
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As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the…
— Deepak Chopra
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Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic…
— Eduard Bruckner
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Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your…
— Lidia Yusupova
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Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
— Noam Chomsky
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The public library is where place and possibility meet.
— Stuart Dybek
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If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came…
— Milton Friedman
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Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses…
— Pope Francis
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Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
— Lyman Abbott
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people…
— John O'Donohue
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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!
— Oprah Winfrey
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In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.
— Frank Baron
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