POSSIBILITY QUOTES II

quotations about possibility

Possibility quote

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

EVELYN UNDERHILL

The Letters of Evelyn Underhill


As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

GRAHAM GREENE

Our Man in Havana

Tags: Graham Greene


Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, -- a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence."

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this -- you haven't.

THOMAS EDISON

attributed, Quote This!: A Collection of Illustrated Quotes for Educators

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

attributed, The Explorers

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It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

The Notebook

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Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

SCOTT ADAMS

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Tags: Scott Adams


Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

ARISTOTLE

Poetics

Tags: Aristotle


Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

GLORIA STEINEM

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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The attempt
Is all the wedge that splits its knotty way
Betwixt the impossible and possible.

ALICE CARY

"The Maiden of Tlalscala"


Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.

MARCUS AURELIUS

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

Tags: Henry David Thoreau


Strive not, my soul, for immortal life, but make the most of the possibilities open to you.

PINDAR

Pythian Odes


Don't be obsessed with the idea that there is only one possibility. If you think so, there is only one.

KATHARINE HATHAWAY

The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith


How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The Sign of Four

Tags: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Consider possibilities; if desirable, act on them.

GIDEON LEE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Everything possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Proverbs of Hell", The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Tags: William Blake


What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

JANE ADDAMS

Peace and Bread in Time of War

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