Possibility Quotes - page 4

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. (Stevie Nicks)
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves. View quote
Yanni
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. View quote
Octavia Butler
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause. View quote
Francine Prose
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. View quote
F. R. Leavis
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. View quote
Herman Kahn
The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms. View quote
John Searle
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. View quote
Murray Rothbard
...the world is possibility if only you'll discover it. (Ralph Ellison)
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget." View quote
Ralph Ellison
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures. View quote
Frans de Waal
... available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. View quote
Marianne Williamson
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. View quote
Marianne Williamson
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. View quote
Henry L. Stimson
With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U. S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested. View quote
Lawrence Summers
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends. (Friedrich Engels)
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things. View quote
Agatha Christie
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. View quote
Terry Goodkind
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. View quote
José Saramago