Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1901 authors
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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or…
— Maya Angelou
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God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.…
— C. Wright Mills
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Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end…
— Benjamin Tucker
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I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose…
— Murray Rothbard
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in…
— Milton Friedman
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The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
— Maurice Blanchot
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
— Norbert Wiener
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase…
— Norbert Wiener
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
— Jack Kornfield
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Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s…
— Byron Katie
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From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There…
— Arnold Gehlen
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does…
— Robert Musil
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Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
— Thomas Merton
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
— Thomas Merton
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There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first…
— Brad Meltzer
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we…
— Atul Gawande
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Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One…
— Alice Bailey
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If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has…
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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