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Quotes About Possibility

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
~ Jasper Fforde
No te creas a quien te diga que el futuro ya está escrito. Lo mas que puede hacer un profeta es ofrecerte la versión más probable de los futuros acontecimientos, pero depende de nosotros aceptar el futuro tal y como es, o cambiarlo. Es fácil dejarse llevar por la corriente, pues para nadar en contra hay que ser muy valiente.
~ Jasper Fforde
Anything is possible right now. We're in the middle of an isolated high coincidental localised entropic field decreasement.' 'We're in a what ?' 'We're in a pseudoscientific technobabble.
~ Jasper Fforde
O brave new world, that has such stories in't!
~ Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
~ Unknown
All of us are somewhat clairvoyant; any future you can dream up, no matter how bizarre, retains the faint possibility of coming true. Kevin's skill was of dreaming up future events that were not just possible, but likely. He once said, Being a clairvoyant is ten percent guesswork and ninety percent probability mathematics.
~ Jasper Fforde
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
~ Jay Abraham
Every change that God promises is possible. Every quality that God requires in His redeemed children can be attained. Every resource that is needed God has supplied.
~ Jay E. Adams
Choose: of all wars, the one that will not take place. Of all possibilities, the least probable. Of all concepts, the most inconceivable. Of all meditations, the most untimely. Of all possible enemies, the one beneath all suspicion.
~ Jean Baudrillard
What is deeply ingrained within us is this possibility of expecting everything from someone at each new meeting. In our own minds, we are all virgins and hope, against all good sense, to find a destiny in any face that comes along.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
On peut toujours faire quelque chose de ce que l'on a fait de nous. »
~ Jean Paul Sartre
But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.
~ Jean Rhys
But what if it were heaven when she got there?
~ Jean Rhys
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.
~ Jeanette Winterson
This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.
~ Jeanette Winterson
And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.
~ Jeanette Winterson
fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What if?' has no power against 'What if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.
~ Jeanette Winterson