Possibility Quotes

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. (John Updike)
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. View quote
Franz Kafka
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. View quote
Sun Tzu
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. View quote
John Lennon
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. View quote
Frances Burney
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. View quote
Gamal Abdel Nasser
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. View quote
Douglas Adams
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. View quote
Denis Diderot
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. (Salvador Dalí)
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. View quote
Eugenio Montale
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. View quote
Vance Packard
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread. View quote
Judith Butler
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection. View quote
Anaïs Nin
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. View quote
Adrienne Rich
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Golda Meir)
Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein. View quote
Martin Heidegger
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get. View quote
Richard Russo
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time. View quote
Lalu Prasad Yadav
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish