Quotes About Possibility

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.

My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat.

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.

yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

Shouting something didn't make it any more possible.

This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images

Only the fantasy of choice remained.

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.

Here it seemed hope and the possibility of redemption abounded. It made Jen feel like punching someone.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'

One of the things I love best about Marvel is the 'What If?' factor; being able to just say, 'Today we're going to explore a world where Magneto and Emma never gave back the X-Men. Or a world where Mary Jane shares Peter's powers.' So being able to do that is just super exciting.

If you look at the positives, if you test yourself and challenge yourself... I describe myself as a 'yes' person. If you say no to too many things, you think 'what if'.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.