Quotes About Possibility

Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.

In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption. In any

in the middle of her mothering years, that life was exciting, that there was always the possibility of something, or someone, previously undiscovered.

Javier reminded her, in the middle of her mothering years, that life was exciting, that there was always the possibility of something, or someone, previously undiscovered.

that life was exciting, that there was always the possibility of something, or someone, previously undiscovered.

Nicolás has never had a fundamental change of heart. So he's unaware of the way Newton's third law can resonate in a place like this: for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.

If there's one good thing about terror, Lydia now understands, it's that it's more immediate than grief. She knows that she will soon have to contend with what's happened, but for now, the possibility of what might happen still serves to anesthetize her from the worst of the anguish.

In short, Nicolás has never had a fundamental change of heart. So he's unaware of the way Newton's third law can resonate in a place like this: for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence

Things are only impossible until they're not.

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?" Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer. "Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can." And away they went. the three together, prancing, leaping, gamboling into the future.

That's the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you'll never know what was behind the door you didn't open.

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.