Quotes About Possibility

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Camera and event. Since its invention, film has seemed destined to make history visible. It has been able to portray the past and stage the present. We have seen Napoleon on horseback and Lenin on the train. Film was possible because there was history. Almost imperceptibly, like moving forward on a Moebius strip, the side was flipped. We look on and have to think: if film is possible, then history too is possible.

nothing changes when you say no, so say yes and let the world know you're open to possibility.

Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

They were of her, but not her—a looking glass that reflected the possibility of what might or might not be, and she could not resist plumbing their depths as she sought to understand her own.

it's funny - say no and you'll stay in the same place. say yes and who knows where you'll end up.

When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.

there is hope in maybe. Maybe. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. —Peter Pan

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

I was trapped in reality, and when the visionaries told me what was possible, I could not hear them.

God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it." – Sarah Mahoney

The part of your mind that believes intuitive knowing to be impossible is that part of your mind for which it is impossible.

There is no such thing as "it can't happen here.

My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.

Then it's not the past I yearn for, but the idea of a time when everything important has not yet happened: — Lawrence Raab, from section 5 of "The Uses of Nostalgia," What We Don't Know About Each Other (Penguin, 1993)

Maybe it's an insanity test, Haggis thought—if you believe it, you're automatically kicked out. He considered that possibility. But when he read it again, he decided, "This is madness.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

There is nowhere morning does not go.