Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness…
— Michael Pollan
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Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses…
— Bruce Friedrich
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Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the…
— Paul Romer
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The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have…
— Ai Weiwei
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
— Ai Weiwei
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The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless…
— Glenn T. Seaborg
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The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
— Manuel de Falla
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God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God…
— Peter Kreeft
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Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if…
— David Whyte
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The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And…
— R. Murray Schafer
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Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate…
— Grace Hartigan
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Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was…
— Jonah Lomu
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It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think…
— Paul W. Ewald
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Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.
— David Zindell
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Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism…
— Julian Baggini
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities,…
— Ishmael Beah
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