Quotes About Possibility

The hypothetical past perfect, the tense of missed chances. Tears dripped down her chin. No, she thought suddenly. I could do that.

It is not too late, he thinks . . . Not yet the end.

Do our pasts determine what we deserve in the future? And is it ever possible to leave your past behind?

It is not too late. It is not too late.

to think politically requires recognizing the ontological dimension of radical negativity.1 It is because of the existence of a form of negativity that cannot be overcome dialectically that full objectivity can never be reached and that antagonism is an ever present possibility.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Fourier believed the world would eventually contain thirty-seven million poets equal to Homer, thirty-seven million mathematicians equal to Newton, and thirty-seven million dramatists equal to Molière—although, he admitted, these were only "approximate estimates.

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible — elves probably more so.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

we had everything before us,

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done

The most important thing in life is to stop saying, 'I wish' and start saying, 'I will'. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

Yet the knowledge of what is possible lives on inside each of us, inextinguishable. Let us trust this knowing, hold each other in it, and organize our lives around it. Do we really have any choice, as the old world falls apart? Shall we settle for anything less than a sacred world?

in the U.S. during the Second World War, victory gardens were responsible for 40 percent of all vegetables grown during that period: 9-10 million tons...This just goes to show how our notions of what is possible or realistic depend on cultural perceptions. Cultural perceptions change, must change, and are changing. If by realistic we mean keeping everything the same, then we are going to have to stop being so 'realistic.

We must remember that purposive change is possible beyond what we direct ourselves. We must remember that this is not a fight we can win just by fighting.

I can be whatever I will to be.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Friend, take this to heart. God can do anything in your life—even what looks absolutely impossible. So trust Him to keep His Word to you regardless of how challenging your circumstances may appear.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be.