Possibility Quotes - page 10

I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment. (Karl Barth)
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought. View quote
Karl Barth
Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn't unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren't pleasant. View quote
Cory Doctorow
While it was long possible and sometimes tempting for physicists to deny the usefulness of the molecular hypothesis, we economists have the good luck of being some of the ‘molecules' of economic life ourselves, and of having the possibility through human contacts to study the behavior of other ‘molecules'. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
Work is motion, but our own. We have the fatal possibility to emulate another, for example a millwheel. View quote
Ludwig Hohl
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? View quote
Dave Sim
I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. View quote
Samuel Smiles
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. View quote
Howard Zinn
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. View quote
Howard Zinn
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity. (Derrick Jensen)
Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great. View quote
Cher
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing -and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I left Symons's company newly aware of the unthinking cruelty discreetly coiled within the magnanimous bourgeois assurance that everyone can discover happiness through work and love. It isn't that these two entities are invariably incapable of delivering fulfilment, only that they almost never do so. And when an exception is represented as a rule, our individual misfortunes, instead of seeming to us quasi-inevitable aspects of life, will weigh down on us like particular curses. In denying the natural place reserved for longing and error in the human lot, the bourgeois ideology denies us the possibility of collective consolation for our fractious marriages and our unexploited ambitions, and condemns us instead to solitary feelings of shame and persecution for having stubbornly failed to become who we are. View quote
Alain de Botton
Heaven may not be a possible world when you take it in isolation by itself. It may be that the only way in which God could actualize a heaven of free creatures all worshiping Him and not falling into sin would be by having, so to speak, this run-up to it, this advance life during which there is a veil of decision-making in which some people choose for God and some people against God. Otherwise you don't know that heaven is an actualizable world. You have no way of knowing that possibility. View quote
William Lane Craig
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
That creatures endowed with the mere possibility of liberty should not always choose the Good appears natural. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance. View quote
William James
The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. (John Amos Comenius)
What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. View quote
Leonard Cohen
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to "Non-Cooperative Games," also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph. D. thesis with the other results. View quote
John Forbes Nash
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. View quote
Paulo Coelho
However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior. View quote
Paulo Coelho