Possibility Quotes - page 2

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. (Robert Wilson Lynd)
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. View quote
Rene Cassin
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. View quote
Steven Johnson
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. View quote
Christopher Lasch
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? View quote
Lee Strasberg
But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. View quote
Armistead Maupin
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. (Conrad Veidt)
Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. View quote
Elizabeth David
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. View quote
Todd Gitlin
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them. View quote
Indira Gandhi
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. View quote
Francis Crick
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. View quote
Georgy Zhukov
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute. View quote
Maimonides
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. (Ted Kennedy)
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real. View quote
James Salter
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results. View quote
George F. Kennan