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Quotes About Possibility

You're thinking I'm not aware of the worst that could happen. I am, but I just don't believe the worst is going to happen.
~ J.D. Robb
I don't know if it's scientifically possible, but I swear there's about six months' worth of trapped boy-farts in this room.
~ J.D. Robb
Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.
~ J.M. Coetzee
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Do I believe in helping people? he wondered. He might help people, he might not help them, he did not know beforehand, anything was possible. He did not seem to have a belief, or did not seem to have a belief regarding help. Perhaps I am the stony ground, he thought.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Qué es el futuro, al fin y al cabo, más que una estructura de expectativas y esperanzas? Reside en la mente. Carece de realidad.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Este no es un mundo posible –dice–. Es el único. Si eso lo convierte en el mejor o no, no debemos decidirlo ni usted ni yo.
~ J.M. Coetzee
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.
~ J.R. Ward
Phury was the only other possibility, but he was a celibate with a broken frickin' heart. Not really man-whore material.
~ J.R. Ward
You could choose some paths and not others. Not always, of course. At times destiny just drove you to a destination and dropped your ass off and that was that. But on occasion you were able to pick the address. And if you had half a brain, no matter how hard it was or how weird it felt, you went into the house. And found yourself.
~ J.R. Ward
If you eliminated all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.
~ J.R. Ward
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
~ Jack Kerouac
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
~ Jack Kerouac
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination?
~ Jack Kerouac
He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
~ Jack Kerouac
I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut
~ Jack Kerouac
It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow
~ Jack Kerouac
But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.
~ Jack Kerouac
Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all at the same time, I am empty space, I am all things. I have all the time in the world to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man?—holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
Aber warum Trübsal blasen, wenn das ganze goldene Land vor einem liegt und alle möglichen ungeahnten Ereignisse auf einen warten, einen überraschen und glücklich machen wollen, weil man lebt und sie erleben kann.
~ Jack Kerouac