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Quotes About Possibility

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
~ John Dryden
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
~ William Feather
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
~ Dale Dauten
Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Everything seems impossible until you see success.
~ Ron Willingham
Do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
~ Alexandre Dumas
that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!
~ Alexandre Dumas
nothing appears impossible to one condemned to die, and miracles appear quite reasonable when his escape from death is concerned.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man's efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
~ Ali Smith
That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.
~ Ali Smith
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
~ Alice Hoffman
It was the first of many marital disasters, but on the night she eloped anything seemed possible, even happiness.
~ Alice Hoffman
But false cheer is draining, and if you pretend long enough there's always the possibility that you'll become an automaton.
~ Alice Hoffman
but when there was nothing left to try it could not hurt to believe in something, however preposterous it might seem.
~ Alice Hoffman
That's all someone in the grip of obsession needs: the single possibility that desire might be real, a tiny shred of evidence to show you're not all alone in the dark.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sometimes you know when doors will open; you have only to walk up to them and wait.
~ Alice Hoffman
I went around the house to the back door thinking, I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me home and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible.
~ Alice Munro
I just think it would be beautiful,' she says. 'I think it would be beautiful if a woman could.
~ Alice Munro
Su voz daba a entender que era posible hacer cualquier cosa, cualquiera, y quitarle importancia diciendo que era una broma, una broma a costa de toda la gente solemne y culpable, toda la gente moral y emotiva del mundo, la gente que «se tomaba a sí misma en serio». Eso era lo que él no podía soportar de los demás.
~ Alice Munro
Look what happens when we dream.
~ Alice Sebold