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Quotes About Possibility

How wonderful would it be if trust, or even love, might be possible between any of us — or even all of us. I mean, if we let ourselves believe such a thing is possible.
~ Tracy K. Smith
The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.
~ Unknown
This land makes me believe anything is possible. Here lies a gift unraveled as was meant to be: within its many folds are men, beasts, insects and grass. The green goes on and on in relentless beauty. As I look at the land I am heartbroken thinking of the future when I will not be here and when this place, too, will be something else.
~ Unknown
We can't be anything. We can never, never be what I dream of us being.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I mean, really, universe … what's the worst that could happen?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Peril and Turtle swam under a bridge packed end-to-end with merchant stalls and dragons calling out to customers. ("The finest rugs in Possibility!" "The actual finest rugs in Possibility!" "Roasted crocodile on sale!" "Don't eat that! His crocodile was rotting in the streets yesterday! We have seagulls caught in the air this morning!")
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She'll be all right, Darkstalker thought. A thousand futures dropped away before him as he made his first choice. Futures where his sister joined his quest for power; futures where she fought him and stopped him; futures where they were best friends; futures where one of them killed the other, or vice versa. As Darkstalker folded his talons together, choosing to keep them still for tonight, every possible future with a thrice-moonborn sister disappeared.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Oh, Moonwatcher, my new favorite dragon. This dragonet with her brain full of bubbles is not your only possibility. I believe you and I are destined for a great friendship.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
often an unfinished picture is all the more interesting for the bare canvas.
~ Patrick O'Brian
certainly. Would
~ Patrick O'Brian
The principle of scientific inquiry should not be limited to merely the practical or the possible, explained Sighter. Only by investigating the unlikely and the unthought-of is the sum total of knowledge advanced.
~ Unknown
But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction. One could not even give up hope. The wind would blow, the sand would settle, and in some as yet unforeseen manner time would bring about a change which could only be terrifying, since it would not be a continuation of the present.
~ Paul Bowles
But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction.
~ Paul Bowles
Make it full of energy, not adrenalin; focused on possibility, not profit; generating independent thinking, not obedience; and spawning meaning everywhere because what really matters there is what really matters.
~ Paul Brown
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
~ Paul Brown
As long as it doesn't require special shoes, human sacrifice, or extra funding, you can do almost anything, as long as you let me know about it.
~ Paul Dini
The things you people can do now!" Unlikely Worlds said. "The stories you make!
~ Unknown
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.
~ Paul Neilan
Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.
~ Paul Rogat Loeb
Here, on the ground, nothing is likely, everything possible.
~ Paul Scott
Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.
~ Paul Theroux
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)
~ Paul Theroux
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us
~ Paul Theroux
Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.
~ Paul Theroux