Possibility Quotes - page 7

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. (Sam Shepard)
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. View quote
Ulrich Beck
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. View quote
Ulrich Beck
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. View quote
David Levithan
Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger. View quote
David Levithan
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection. View quote
Jack Canfield
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. View quote
Jack Kornfield
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. View quote
James Surowiecki
Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility. View quote
Linda Goodman
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. (Dalai Lama)
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. View quote
Peter L. Berger
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see it anymore. View quote
Ann Brashares
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. View quote
Clara Barton
In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold. View quote
Benjamin Zander
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days. View quote
Wendell Berry
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North. View quote
Elizabeth Dole
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. View quote
T.D. Jakes
Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight. View quote
Diane Duane
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. View quote
Lee Smolin
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism. View quote
Philippe Starck
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none. View quote
Ann Macbeth