Quotes About Possibility

Why give up before we try?

There are many futures and many pasts, and your present is but a tiny fulcrum, changing all of them...

The future is uncertain and thus holds the possibility of happiness for us all;

In a second, fate can send a bus crashing into you and change your life---or not.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

The sky is not the limit — the ground is.

The dog and the butler could go, but the rest had serious potential.

To every parent or grandparent with an aching heart. "With God all things are possible." MATTHEW 19:26

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

The majority of love affairs are temporary. But that doesn't diminish the possibility the next one might become something more.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere

There were always a million ways a job could go wrong, but only one way for it to go right.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.

Knowing that wishes don't always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there's a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

100s and 1000s, if

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.

An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.

Well we thought a church wedding would be possible. It certainly would be possible in the Catholic church because after all my first marriage had been annulled by Pope Paul VI. The problem arose in that Prince Michael could not have Catholic children.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.