Quotes About Possibility

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

A speech with magical force. Nowadays, people don't believe in these kinds of things. Except in the Metaverse, that is, where magic is possible. The Metaverse is a fictional structure made out of code. And code is just a form of speech—the form that computers understand. The Metaverse in its entirety could be considered a single vast nam-shub, enacting itself on L. Bob Rife's fiber-optic network.

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

Your potential is unlimited in all that you've chosen to do.

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [...] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.

It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility.

No. There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

For all we know, the aliens may have tried to get in touch centuries ago and have concluded that there is no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility is that aliens did become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, and drew the same conclusion.

Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.