Quotes About Possibility

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

As a child, I saw the potential of our world and it made me smile.

shook my head. Bombs fell from the sky. Boys fell from trees. Anything might happen. Anytime.

I stared at Papa, hearing his words over in my mind: what if I were a spy. I didn't think for one moment that Papa was actually a spy, but the phrase awakened a sense of possibility in me.

How hard can it be?

To Whom It May Concern-- Only four words of advice: It can be done.

The greatest fear is knowing that the sky is not the limit but beginning of wonders!

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible- that nothing is too good to be true.

What does everything mean to you right now, this second, while you are looking out at an ocean of possibility?

Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.

Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

There are places in human experience that politics cannot analyze or address, and they hold more possibility for change than we can begin to imagine.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

It is a bad habit of mind, a form of power-worship, to assume that things must be as they are, that they will continue to be as they have been. It soothes the conscience of the privileged, dulls the will of the oppressed. The first step toward change is the understanding that things can be different. This is my principal recommendation, then: we must recognize the possibility of a world without police.

How can I possibly sleep at a time like this?" He sighed. "You will learn that a lot of things are possible.

You will learn that a lot of things are possible.

Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Gli storici, scrisse Aristotele (Poetica, 51 b) parlano di quello che è stato (del vero), i poeti parlano di quello che avrebbe potuto essere (del possibile). Ma naturalmente il vero è un punto d'arrivo, non un punto di partenza. Gli storici (e, in modo diverso, i poeti) fanno per mestiere qualcosa che è parte della vita di tutti: districare l'intreccio di vero, falso, finto che è la trama del nostro stare al mondo.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

Some behavior is more probable, other behavior more improbable.