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Quotes About Possibility

Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.
~ Unknown
You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Or you can choose grace. To let it all go in one fell swoop. There will be no middle ground here." He waved his arm and shook his shaggy head, letting out a tired sigh. "But I will offer this. Instead of wondering what was lost, take a moment and wonder what could be gained. What could still be lost if you don't let go.
~ Unknown
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can
~ Martha Graham
You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps." from Best Friends
~ Unknown
On the shows I liked best, monsters were always a possibility in these situations, but in reality it only happened around 27 percent of the time. Also a joke. Mostly.
~ Martha Wells
Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.
~ Martha Wells
Anything is possible where faith is concerned.
~ Unknown
Play is the exultation of the possible.
~ Martin Buber
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
~ Martin Heidegger
And it's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.) Indeed
~ Unknown
To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold dear—their daily habits, tools, loyalties, and ways of thinking—with nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility.
~ Unknown
[On extraterrestrial life:] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
~ Martin Rees
Most people just see a blank page and hear nothing. I see a universe waiting to be born and hear voices that want to speak...
~ Unknown
Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.
~ Martin Van Creveld
Anything could happen in a cosmos that was part math and part magic.
~ Martine Leavitt
I don't know anyone else who could dream a world where nothing ends.
~ Martine Murray
Much of our lives involves the word 'no.' In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.' But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.
~ Marvin Bell
I am not saying that those who have not yet come to be are nothing.18 They are [28] within one who may wish that they come into being if at some future point he so wishes.
~ Unknown
In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.
~ Mary Balogh
It's like buying a lottery ticket: you might win, and until they have the drawing, you haven't lost. I
~ Unknown
The miraculous is the least one must aim at.
~ Unknown