Quotes About Possibilities

this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

Sabes por qué podía hacerlo? Porque nunca nadie le había dicho que no podía. Nunca nadie le había dicho que debía estar muriéndose en algún asilo de ancianos. Uno vive según sus propias expectativas, amigo. Como

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn't 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but 'Is this character alive?'

Ainda bem que sempre existe outro dia. E outros sonhos. E outros risos. E outras pessoas. E outras coisas.

Anchored in unknowing, I yearn to rise out of the restlessness of my own forms of helplessness inside a structure that constricts possibilities.

Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.

oscillating among the different possibilities allows us time to come to new and different ways of integrating who we were then with who we are now and who we are becoming. When this self-exploration and self-testing ends prematurely—either because we are not able to tolerate the contradictions or because we are unable to assimilate new information about ourselves—we risk either letting go of the past too rapidly or holding on to it too rigidly.

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities.

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.

Please release your expectations and open yourself to all possibilities.

Her future back then, thought Cat now, was like a long buffet table of exotic dishes awaiting her selection. This career or that career. This boy or that boy. Marriage and children? Maybe later—for dessert, perhaps. She didn't realize they'd start clearing the plates away so soon.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

So many stories are determined before they start

Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.

I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.