Quotes About Possibility

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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.

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

he occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. 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 where it went anymore.

Where there is nothing, there is the possibility for everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.

Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Ready for New York and whatever it held for me.

It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to us, and so deceptive, that we keep its counsel even as it threatens to destroy the very possibility of human happiness. Our enemy is nothing other than faith itself.

But shouldn't a limitless possibility of bad open the spectrum for a limitless possibility of good?

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

ALTERNATIVE  (ALTE'RNATIVE)   n.s.[alternatif, Fr.]The choice given of two things; so that if one be rejected, the other must be taken.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

La paz no consiste sólo en dejar de disparar, sino en construir con generosidad y sentido colectivo un entorno legal, social y económico; es decir, necesita un estado pleno y de derecho que la haga posible, que le permita respirar

What we think is impossible happens all the time.

I'm allowed to have new dreams.

I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.

Let's just start and see what happens.

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Can she be divorced? I asked. And famous for her commercials and ideas? She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.