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Possibility Quotes
"Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair."
141
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
141
"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."
71
"To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used."
62
"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."
58
"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
58
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
57
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
56
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
56
"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."
56
"When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there."
55
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
53
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."
53
"One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb."
51
"Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane."
51
"The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility."
50
"The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined."
49
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
49
"If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks."
48
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
48
"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer."
46
"Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated."
46
"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."
46
"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."
46
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack."
46
"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
46
"The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be."
46
"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
45
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
45
"It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities."
45
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
45
"Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility."
45
"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."
44
"There is always a way out, as there is a way in."
44
"These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich."
43
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"
43
"So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known."
41
"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better."
41
"The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that."
41
"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."
40
"In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters."
40
"It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years."
40
"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature."
40
"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
39
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
39
"Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility."
38
"The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority."
38
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
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