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Quotes About Possibility

it is always better to count your blessings instead of airing your complaints; wisdom doesn't come cheap; nothing is impossible to a willing heart; and love is never afraid of giving too much.
~ Elaine Coffman
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we're all going to live forever!
~ Elaine Dundy
Who of those born in future generations will believe this? I myself who saw it can hardly believe that such was possible.
~ Eleanor Arnason
What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?
~ Eleanor Cameron
What one has to do usually can be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
it was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.
~ Elena Ferrante
Ahead of us were many hours when no one in our families would look for us. When I think of the pleasure of being free, I think of the start of that day, of coming out of the tunnel and finding ourselves on a road that went straight as far as the eye could see, the road that, according to what Rino had told Lila, if you got to the end arrived at the sea. I felt joyfully open to the unknown.
~ Elena Ferrante
In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.
~ Elena Ferrante
Nas fábulas se age como se quer, na realidade se faz o que se pode.
~ Elena Ferrante
Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.
~ Elena Ferrante
Un joven es siempre una incógnita. Matarlo es matar la posibilidad del misterio, todo lo que hubiera podido ser, su extraordinaria riqueza, su complejidad. •José Soriano Muñoz, maestro de la Escuela Wilfrido Massieu
~ Elena Poniatowska
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
~ Elias Canetti
What is there that money will not do?
~ Anthony Trollope
I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
La vita è un appuntamento, lo so di dire una banalità Monsieur, solo che noi non sappiamo mai il quando, il chi, il come, il dove. E allora uno pensa: se avessi detto questo invece di quello, o quello invece di questo, se mi fossi alzato tardi invece che presto, o presto invece che tardi, oggi sarei impercettibilmente differente, e forse tutto il mondo sarebbe impercettibilmente differente. O sarebbe lo stesso e io non potrei saperlo.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
Most poll questions are like if a person likes A or B; whereas the correct answer, more often than not, be from rest of the alphabets.
~ Anuj Somany
More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
~ Archibald MacLeish
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
~ Ariel Dorfman
For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
~ Aristotle
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
~ Aristotle
Concerning things which exist or will exist inevitably, or which cannot possibly exist or take place, no counsel can be given.
~ Aristotle
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
~ Aristotle