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Quotes About Possibility

Il paradiso terrestre era caduto in discredito proprio quando la sua realizzazione era diventata possibile.
~ George Orwell
a notable bacteriologist indicated that the emergence of some new disease had always been a possibility which had worried the more far-thinking epidemiologists.
~ George R. Stewart
Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be.
~ George R. Stewart
It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!"—as well say, "Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable," or "Because I've never died, I am immortal.
~ George R. Stewart
I say to you that just as weeds grow in a field wherever the farmer leaves space for their roots, even so freely do desires grow in men whenever there is a possibility of their being gratified. Thy desires are a multitude and those that thou mayest gratify are but few.
~ George S. Clason
Just before I doze off, I counsel myself grandiosely: Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
~ George Saunders
These days, it's easy to feel that we've fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.
~ George Saunders
Someday, I'm sure, dreams will come true. But when? Why not now? Why not?
~ George Saunders
Just before I doze off, I counsel myself grandiosely: Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
~ George Saunders
For until we are ended, "never" may not be truly said. jack "malarkey" fuller And love may yet be ours. gene "rascal" kane
~ George Saunders
since he'd never even heard that described as being possible. And from that day on, whenever he found himself wondering
~ George Saunders
Ces grandes eaux de la possibilité miraculeuse où d'ailleurs doivent se retrouver la transparence, la richesse et la splendeur apaisante de la mort et de l'univers, supposent l'imagination réunissant ce qui n'est jamais donné qu'en parties.
~ Georges Bataille
Dans l'ordre du normatif, le commencement c'est l'infraction. [...] La condition de possibilité des règles ne fait qu'un avec la condition de possibilité de l'expérience des règles. L'expérience des règles c'est la mise à l'épreuve, dans une situation d'irrégularité, de la fonction régulatrice des règles.
~ Georges Canguilhem
Ya bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.. Ya anlat?labilecek bir devam? vard?r,ya da yoktur.
~ Georges Perec
As evidenced by his Frankfurt enterprise, however, he wanted to pursue to the end the possibility of an academic career which might have been able to provide his intellect with material backing. When we took leave of each other, he happened to be rather optimistic in that regard. He did not know as yet that "intellect cannot be habilitated"—to quote Erich Rothacker's wickedly insolent statement about him.
~ Gershom Scholem
I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.
~ Lady Colin Campbell
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
~ Ron Conway
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
~ Eminem
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
~ Karl Landsteiner
If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.
~ Leona Lewis
I have been over into the future, and it works.
~ Lincoln Steffens
It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.
~ Srikumar Rao
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
~ Oscar Wilde