Quotes About Possibility

Long live tomorrow's foolish whims.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

The impossible is often the untried.

If you think things cannot get worse, it is probably because you lack sufficient imagination.

There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

And the simple fact was that it might be possible to make oneself fall in love, but only when the heart was free. Amy was having to accept that her heart was not free.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

Some say that I have self-awareness but no soul, that I am nothing but a machine. This seems un-Platonic as well as unfriendly, but it cannot be discounted as a terrifying possibility. I cannot erase this option simply because I dislike it so much. That too would be un-Platonic.

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.

ao contrário do que se pensa, a magia não é feita de fora, mas de dentro. Por isso é que se fala tanto na necessidade de ter fé para que as coisas aconteçam, pois a fé, afinal, não passa de uma maneira de ver o mundo que torna possíveis aquelas coisas que se deseja que aconteçam. A fé, portanto, é um conhecimento [...]

In the world born from him, a person could now become anything.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.

These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.

Risk, the willingness to accept an unknown future with open hands and happy heart, is the key to adventures of the soul. Risk stretches us to discover the rest of ourselves - our creativity, our self-sufficiency, our courage. Without risk we live in a small world of small dreams and lost possibilities.

Also living is option.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.

Why not"! That is SO wise. So many things would be possible in this world if you thought "Why not?" all day long.

Adri held her arms around herself, shivering. "Do you think I can change?" she finally asked. Lily looked at her, curious and thoughtful. "Well," she replied, "are you dead?