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Quotes About Possibility

Neuroanatomy isn't destiny. Neither is genetics. They don't define who you will be. But they do define who you might be. They define who you can be.
~ Temple Grandin
Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.
~ Tennessee Williams
The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
~ Tennessee Williams
because the results couldn't be guaranteed by the available
~ Julian May
She remembered what he'd said in the hotel, that life was just a series of moments, and though she still did not agree with the idea that consequences played no part, she gave in to the possibility that there might be some wisdom in what he was trying to show her- that one had to enjoy life day by day and seize opportunities when they presented themselves, because one never knew when it could all end.
~ Julianne MacLean
Sometimes life is cruel, and it can seem pointless and tragic. But occasionally—surprisingly—certain hardships can lead you down a new path you never dreamed possible.
~ Julianne MacLean
Maybe there is someone in your future who will change everything. Maybe there will be gifts that will surprise you. Live for it. Dream of it. Or if you already have it, treasure it.
~ Julianne MacLean
On that note, one thing I've learned is that nothing is ever set in stone. When things seem terrible or tragic, the future can change on a dime. Sometimes, the worst things that happen to us teach us to be stronger, and they prepare us to hunker down and weather the next crashing wave. And it's amazing how luck can change when the wave recedes and you open your heart to the possibility of good things.
~ Julianne MacLean
There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
Whatever man imagines is possible
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.
~ Julie Anne Peters
So love is possible at the Loony Bin. Or, at least, lust.
~ Julie Halpern
A new enterprise awaits. It hangs before you like fruit on a tree.
~ Julie Powell
I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply buried aroma of hope and discovery of fulfillment in it. I thought I was using the Book to learn to cook French food, but really I was learning to sniff out the secret doors of possibility.
~ Julie Powell
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
~ Juliet Stevenson
Del sí al no, ¿cuántos quizá?
~ Julio Cortazar
Había tanto tiempo perdido en vos, eras de tal manera el molde de lo que hubieras podido ser.
~ Julio Cortazar
En realidad las cosas verdaderamente difíciles son otras tan distintas, todo lo que la gente cree poder hacer a cada momento.
~ Julio Cortazar
el silencio desde donde la música es posible
~ Julio Cortazar
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
~ Junot Diaz
Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.
~ Junot Diaz
It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.
~ Junot Diaz
Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be.
~ Junot Diaz
What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path—the one chosen for you—was visible.
~ Justin Cronin