Quotes About Possibility

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.

The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Das Mögliche ist beinahe unendlich, das Wirkliche streng begrenzt, weil doch nur eine von allen Möglichkeiten zur Wirklichkeit werden kann. Das Wirkliche ist nur ein Sonderfall des Möglichen und deshalb auch anders denkbar.

Die Liebe ist ein Wunder, das immer wieder möglich, das Böse eine Tatsache, die immer vorhanden ist.

Even as bad as it often gets, we are further along than Dogen could probably have envisioned in his day. I don't know how long it will take to finally get there, but, like Dogen, I believe it is possible.

Science-fiction works hand-in-glove with the universe.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

Hello?' M-Bot said. 'Spensa? Are you dead?' 'Maybe.' 'Oooh. Like the cat!' '...What?' 'I'm not sure, honestly,' M-Bot said. 'But logically, if you're speaking to me then possibility has collapsed in our favor. Hurray!

It is beautiful because it could have been. It should have been.

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not.

Past failure does not prove that there is not chance in the future, yes?

You don't know what you're saying," Ua'pam said. "And that might just be why Maya and I are able to do things you think impossible.

Oh," Obliteration continued, "I think that you'll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

Anything that is possible is actually reality, given infinity.

Like most people, I always thought of hope as an emotion—like a warm feeling of optimism and possibility. I was wrong. I was shocked to discover that hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. Emotions play a supporting role, but hope is really a thought process made up of what Snyder calls a trilogy of goals, pathways, and agency.

I had to dig very deep and make the conscious choice to believe… to believe in myself and the possibility of living a different life.

Not only do moments of collective emotion remind us of what is possible between people, but they also remind us of what is true about the human spirit.

I'm so excited about the possibility. I'm trying to stay realistic, but I really hope it happens.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Christianity is not simply a message but an experience of faith that becomes a message, explicitly offering hope, freedom from bondage, and a new realm of possibility.

It puzzled her that orgasm wasn't widely considered a phenomenon that challenges everything we believe about human existence—doesn't it serve as proof of an alternate state of being? Isn't the fact that people can feel this way, so in thrall to this enigmatic force, so carried by it, even for an instant, evidence that the state in which we spend most of our time is merely one possibility?

Ahora no es momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay