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Possibility Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
- Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
- To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to…
- I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth…
- The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
More Possibility Quotes
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be… — Edward de Bono
- A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious… — Rudolf Dreikurs