Quotes About Possibility

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.

I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

You may not be able to choose your reality. But you can change it.

You will ask yourself How come; you will ask yourself What if.

FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. It's the sound of your voice, without anyone drowning you out. It's having the grace to say yes, and more important, the right to say no. At the heart of freedom, hope beats: a pulse of possibility.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever

Suddenly Izzy's future no longer seemed impossible. It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Maybe. Because he's got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.

no matter what is happening in your life, no matter what you think will happen, it can be another way.

Keep in mind, just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that one does not exist. You simply haven't discovered it yet.

What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.

Some day we will try To do as many things as are possible And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful Of them, but this will not have anything To do with what is promised today, our Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear On the horizon.

Did you ever think, maybe you're not too big? Maybe this town's just too small? - Big Fish

Anything is possible," I said. "But most things are unlikely.

Anything is possible but most things are unlikely.

but each has the same function: to keep the family system in balance, frozen and protected from the possibility of change.

What third alternative?" Said Chang with the dream-like air of a man who finds himself doing the impossible. "They gave it to us," said the Machine.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson