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Quotes About Possibilities

I SUPPOSE YOU LOVEDHIM TOO, THIS BRAWNY WARRIOR? NO, but Mystra did. AND? And nothing. He died. HAH! HER TIME AND ATTENTION WASTED! Not so. She does not regard humans as tools, to be measured by their usefulness to her ends of the moment, but rather as flowers to be nurtured in a garden. Each passing year holds a better display, and affords grander possibilities.
~ Ed Greenwood
A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder hope a dream of possibilities.
~ Eda J. LeShan
One of the challenges of life is to be open-minded about new ideas and new possibilities.
~ Edward B. Burger
Or in the future, dreading possible calamities and unpleasantnesses, anticipating future joys, dreaming of future events.
~ Anthony de Mello
All her life she has been led to believe that she is a child born at the end of things: the empire, the era, the reign of men on earth. But in the glow of the scribes' enthusiasm, she senses that in a city like Urbino, beyond the horizon, other possibilities might exist, and in daydreams she takes flight across the Aegean, through her spread fingers, until she alights in a bright clean palace, full of Justice and Moderation, its rooms lined with books, free to anyone who can read them.
~ Anthony Doerr
The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.
~ Anthony Doerr
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.
~ Asher Keddie
I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.
~ John Thune
I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.
~ Rory Stewart
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
~ Bryan Ferry
If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.
~ Jeb Bush
When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
~ Dan Rosensweig
I would never rule out any opportunity completely. I'd be a fool to do that.
~ Manushi Chhillar
Reading can show you how capacious and stretchy fiction is, how much it can accommodate, and how far it has expanded beyond the straight and narrow path from point A to point B.
~ Francine Prose
what determined people's happiness wasn't their physical conditions or capabilities but what they paid attention to, what they emphasized, what they accomplished within the possibilities available to them.
~ Frank Bruni
You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.
~ Frank Herbert
Bilo koja staza koja sužava mogu?nosti u budu?nosti može postati smrtonosna klopka. Ljudi ne kr?e sebi put kroz labirint; oni pretražuju širok horizont ispunjen jedinstvenim pojavama.
~ Frank Herbert
?uvaj se staza koje sužavaju budu?e mogu?nosti. Takve staze odmi?u od beskona?nosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.
~ Frank Herbert
I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The
~ Frank Herbert
Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.
~ Frank Herbert
He saw people. He felt the heat and cold of uncounted probabilities. He knew names and places, experienced emotions without number, reviewed data of innumerable unexplored crannies. There was time to probe and test and taste, but no time to shape. The thing was a spectrum of possibilities from the most remote past to the most remote future—from the most probable to the most improbable. He saw his own death in countless ways. He saw new planets, new cultures. People. People.
~ Frank Herbert
In fact, there are unlimited opportunities in the market, and missing out on one or two opportunities should not be treated as a bad thing.
~ Frank Miller
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
~ Frank Zappa