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Quotes About Possibility

For all I know, most practicing scientists may have no opinion about the overarching cosmological questions to which this materialist reductionism provides an answer. Their detailed research and substantive findings do not in general depend on or imply either that or any other answer to such questions. But among the scientists and philosophers who do express views about the natural order as a whole, reductive materialism is widely assumed to be the only serious possibility.
~ Thomas Nagel
Shall I project a world?
~ Thomas Pynchon
each philosopher realized that life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest. As Kierkegaard remarked, many people have offered proofs for the immortality of the soul, but Socrates, after hypothesizing that the soul might be immortal, risked his life with that possibility in mind.
~ Thomas R. Flynn
To say that God's goodness may be different in kind from man's goodness, what is it but saying, with a slight change of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good?" —John Stuart Mill
~ Thomas Talbott
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
~ Thomas Traherne
When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution ... unless you're mistaken as to just what is and what isn't impossible.
~ Thomas W. Knowles
Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them.
~ Thornton Wilder
Cause it's not too late It's never too late
~ Three Days Grace
its not too late never too late
~ Three Days Grace
The Buddhist attitude is that it doesn't matter how many delusions you have, how confused you are, how much sin or negativity you have created, it is possible, absolutely possible, to totally eradicate all of it.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Our problem is that inside us there's a mind going, "Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can't, I can't, I can't." We have to banish that mind from this solar system. Anything is possible; everything is possible. Sometimes you feel that your dreams are impossible, but they're not. Human beings have great potential; they can do anything. The power of the mind is incredible, limitless.
~ Thubten Yeshe
There's an alternate universe where I never left
~ Tia Williams
There's an alternate universe where I never left, he thought.
~ Tia Williams
I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
The thing is, Harp, everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
You've got to take life's opportunities where you find them.
~ Tilly Bagshawe
Impossible' isn't in my vocabulary," said Serge.
~ Tim Dorsey
Never judge a team by its past performance. On any given day, any team can beat another
~ Tim Green
I have no problems doing a song or a cameo. You never know what can bring success - just like the role I did in Buddhivanta.'
~ Suman Ranganathan
I would love to do Doc again, no question. It's tough to come up with an idea that contains the excitement of the original three. So it would be a real challenge for the writers to come up with an original 'Back to the Future' story that has the same passion and intensity and excitement as the other three. But it could be done. You never know.
~ Christopher Lloyd
There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.
~ Lights
Nobody knows what the future holds.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.
~ Mitchell Reiss