Quotes About Possibility

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

It's a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Si la littérature est réellement dotée d'une force mystérieuse, c'est bien celle-là: la possibilité pour un lecteur de retrouver ses propres impressions dans l'œuvre d'un écrivain d'une autre époque, d'un autre pays, d'un autre peuple, d'une autre langue et d'une autre culture.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

To speak of chance is to negate the possibility of any law of cause and effect. Chance is the one final irrationality acceptable to the free will.

Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.

From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition natural

most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Not that everything is possible.

A cultura tende a argumentar que proíbe apenas o que não é natural. Mas, de uma perspectiva biológica, não existe nada que não seja natural. Tudo o que é possível é, por definição, também natural. Um comportamento verdadeiramente não natural, que vá contra as leis da natureza, simplesmente não teria como existir e, portanto, não necessitaria de proibição.

que nadie imaginaba ni deseaba.

La cultura tiende a aducir que solo prohíbe lo que es antinatural. Pero, desde una perspectiva biológica, nada es antinatural. Todo lo que es posible es, por definición, también natural. Un comportamiento verdaderamente antinatural, que vaya contra las leyes de la naturaleza, simplemente no puede existir, de modo que no necesitaría prohibición.

El dinero es así un medio universal de intercambio que permite a la gente convertir casi todo en casi cualquier cosa.

solo Homo sapiens puede hablar sobre cosas que no existen realmente, y creerse seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno.

Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined.

And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

every day our beliefs guide our actions and it is up to us to make the impossible become possible.

Don't be an 'if' thinker, be a 'how' thinker

Whatever we have is only a potential. It becomes visible only if the other part has a lower potential.

Human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

There was a whole world out there waiting for her-- all she had to do was reach out and grab it.

If," she says. "It's a beautiful word. If is a key to any locked door.

A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.