Possibility Quotes

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. — Aristotle
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. — John Cage
If not you, who? If not now, when? — Hillel the Elder
I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities. — John Cheever
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. — Tom Stoppard
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose… — Lewis Mumford
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. — Edward de Bono
All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities. — Ken Robinson
Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Samuel Johnson
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and… — Neville Chamberlain
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of… — Joseph Campbell
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude

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