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Quotes About Possibility

If I have any rule pertaining to my profession, that rule is: anything can happen today. Nothing is impossible.
~ Carroll John Daly
Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past.
~ Carsten Jensen
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines.
~ George Grossmith
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines
~ George Grossmith
Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world--now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.
~ George Hammond
The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.
~ George Leonard
Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
~ George Lucas
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
It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!"—as
~ George R. Stewart
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
~ George R.R. Martin
Wine makes all things possible.
~ George R.R. Martin
When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.
~ George R.R. Martin
Not all risks lead to ruin.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dreams are what we have.
~ George R.R. Martin
Now he could go anywhere, associate with anybody, be anything he wanted to be.
~ George S. Schuyler
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
~ George Santayana
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible
~ George Santayana
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
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
~ George Saunders
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
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
Like a woman, possibility makes demands, makes a person go all the way.
~ Georges Bataille
A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this--to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.
~ Georges Bataille
Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.
~ Georges Bataille