Quotes About Possibility

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

You'd be surprised what facing life in prison without the possibility of parole will do to weaken someone's personal convictions," Burnside said.

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.

Do I care about these other branches? Should I? There is always the chance that at some time in the future an empty branch recombines with my branch, causing interference, which changes my life

The dark-matter hypothesis is preferred mostly because the only other possibility-that we are wrong about Newton's laws, and by extension general relativity-is too scary to contemplate.

If we don't blow ourselves up, the future will be wonderful.

The present is pregnant with the future.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

But you can't invent things like time,' Violet said. 'You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window waster. But you can't invent more time.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream

You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time

My aunt always says that if you put your mind to it, you can do absolutely anything," Jake said. "Is that true?" "No," I said. "It's nonsense.

All this bit about angels and all the different religions, it's based on something. I think anything's possible. I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.