Possibility Quotes

• When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Forgiveness
  • Tough

• With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

  

  Francine Prose
  • War
  • Army
  • Landscape

• Nothing's perfect... and it's in the imperfection there is possibility.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Perfect
  • Nothing
  • Imperfection

• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Animal
  • Helping
  • Consciousness

• The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Daughter
  • Possibility
  • Murderer

• Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

  

  Betty Rollin
  • Desire
  • Equipment
  • Chooses

• There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann 
Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibilities were.

  

  William Shawn
  • People
  • Possibility
  • Arbors

• None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Moments
  • Possibility
  • Arrangements

• Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Soul
  • Profound
  • Social

• Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Choices
  • Humans
  • Diversity

• I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day.

  

  Rico Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Family
  • I Love

• There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Sky
  • Ocean
  • Possibility

• May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Today

• Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Mistake
  • Helping
  • Feet

• If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Choices

• So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Knows
  • Impossible
  • Optimistic

• Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

  

  Erland Josephson
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Stage

• There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Photography

• History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • History
  • Forces
  • Resistance

• The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

  

  Arthur Zajonc
  • People
  • Leader
  • Possibility

• While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Brave

• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Friends
  • Miracles

• I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.

  

  Gail Levin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Surprise

• Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mean
  • Decision
  • Cutting

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