Quotes About Possibility

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

One has no right to make up one's mind about the future in advance.

Let us beware lest our lack of imagination impoverish the future;

Pero nuestros actos no esperan ser llamados; saltan hacia un porvenir que no está prefigurado en ninguna parte.

Their behavior is defined and can be judged only within this given situation, and it is possible that in this situation, limited like every human situation, they realize a perfect assertion of their freedom. But once there appears a possibility of liberation, it is resignation of freedom not to exploit the possibility, a resignation which implies dishonesty and which is a positive fault.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

For the soldier death is the future, the future his profession assigns him. Yet the idea of man's having death for a future is abhorrent to nature. Once the experience of war makes visible the possibility of death that lies locked up in each moment, our thoughts cannot travel from one day to the next without meeting death's face.

God created our autonomy so we would have the possibility of renouncing it for love. For that very reason we must desire to conserve the autonomy in our fellows.

I wrote 'It Can't Happen Here,' but I began to think it certainly can.

Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (The Sign of the Four, page 111)

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions double valour at the hour of need; ``and to the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so.

That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she'll go far

I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I'm twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. There's no rush, I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again.

The possibilities in my head are getting more and more far-fetched, but I can't give up on them.

Now we will let the knight of faith appear in the rôle just described. He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, "I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.