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Quotes About Possibilities

how can we know all the possibilities in an infinite universe?
~ Anodea Judith
Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
~ Anonymous
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
~ Dennis Lehane
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.
~ Jimmy Somerville
Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.
~ Rick Tumlinson
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.
~ Kyle Hill
Presently [Bridey] said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster," "If I was head of the Great Western Railway," "If I was an actress," as though it were a mere trick of fate that he was none of these things, and he might awake any morning to find the matter adjusted—"if I was Rex I should want to live in my constituency.
~ Evelyn Waugh
she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rosemary pojecha?a do Monte Carlo zgn?biona - na miar? swoich mo?liwo?ci - wprost bezgranicznie.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
His voice promised that he would take care of her, and that a little later he would open up whole new worlds for her, unroll an endless succession of magnificent possibilities.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo
~ Fernando Pessoa
If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
~ Wayne McGregor
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
~ Matt Haig
Whites cook at a lower temperature, set at a lower temperature than yolks. That, to me, is very interesting. That has opened up - as an egg lover, that has opened up sort of a world of possibilities, of applications.
~ Wylie Dufresne
Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.
~ Peyton Manning
One must understand that shooting is a very individual sport and see what sort of coaching possibilities exist in the country and what their standards are. One of the issues that has been faced earlier by shooting athletes is that we have one odd national coach for whom it's impossible to give that sort of attention to say, a group of 30.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
~ Eugene Kennedy
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
~ W. D. Richter
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
~ Val McDermid
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
~ Fay Godwin
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.
~ Steven Pinker