Quotes About Possibility

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

You never know. In a world like this, you never know what's possible. So I figure, don't say it's possible, because you don't know. But, then again, don't say it's not possible. Because you don't know that, either.

And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.

people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

There is water within our reach. We only have to reach for it.

robe and opened the door.

Raymond wondered how it would feel to live in a world where a flight of stairs stood as a massive

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

Catherynne M. Valente

When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things...grant[ed] us in this mortal mere...Unknown and therefore infinite.

For when a box is shut, you cannot tell what it might contain, so you might as well say it contains everything, because, really, it could contain anything, see? But when you open it, you affect what is inside. Observing something changes it, that's a law, nothing to be done.

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.

It wasn't bad, but it could not be great.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, thereÂ's nothing you canÂ't accomplish.

No one is ever so poor that he is not (without prejudice to all the rest of the world) owner of the skies and stars and everything wild that is to be found on the earth.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Anything is doable, when you believe in a God who is able to do what cannot be done, according to a human mind.

God can do above and beyond what a mind can ever conceive.

God is bigger than you think, and He can do better than you thought.

God is never restricted by what people expect of Him. He is able to do better than that.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.