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Quotes About Possibility

One possibility is that the king and his companions were cracking down on 'fake monasteries
~ Unknown
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
~ Marcel Duchamp
A veces estamos demasiado dispuestos a creer que el presente es el único estado posible de las cosas.
~ Marcel Proust
Já houve quem dissesse que a beleza é uma promessa de felicidade. Inversamente a possibilidade de prazer pode ser um começo de beleza.
~ Marcel Proust
Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility.
~ John O'Donohue
Imagination according to William Blake is about the awakening to and recognition of the sacredness of all the difference that there is. Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake.
~ John O'Donohue
And here are we, even if we are old, we still have time, and time is always full of possibility. It would really be a great gift that an old person could give to themselves, the gift of recognizing the possibilities that are in that time, and to use their imagination. The imagination is the gateway to a full life, and people who awaken their imagination come in to a force field of possibility and there are doors opening everywhere. I think it is unknown what you can do if you begin to see it.
~ John O'Donohue
It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. Self-compassion is a wonderful gift to give yourself. You should never reduce the mystery and expanse of your presence to a haunted fixation with something you did or did not do.
~ John O'Donohue
Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.
~ John O'Donohue
One of the questions that John loved to pose was "when was your last great conversation with someone?" Good conversation chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade, and it penetrates the depths so as to soar unto unfolding possibility.
~ John O'Donohue
We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.
~ John Rawls
Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.
~ John Sandford
Sherlock Holmes and that whole Holmes thing—that once you've eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth. What Holmes never admitted was that there is a vast universe of the possible, and sorting through all the possibilities is often impossible.
~ John Sandford
bit: that there was a possibility of a conspiracy aimed at Michaela Bowden.
~ John Sandford
She had some hope, now. First chance
~ John Sandford
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
~ John Scalzi
Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.
~ John Scalzi
It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.
~ Unknown
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
~ John Steinbeck
You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.
~ John Steinbeck
You can't make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.
~ John Steinbeck
There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness.
~ John Steinbeck
Não tem medo que não seja bom como a gente imaginou? [morar na Califórnia] Respondeu ela rapidamente - [...] Seria viver muitas vidas ao mesmo tempo. Temos mil vidas diante de nós, mas, ao fim delas, todas se tornam uma só.
~ John Steinbeck
timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest'—it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.' Don't you
~ John Steinbeck