top of page
.png){kind=small}
Possibility Quotes
"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."
41
"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
41
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
40
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
39
"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."
38
"I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally."
38
"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."
38
"I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip."
37
"It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian."
36
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
36
"Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement."
36
"Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time."
36
"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."
34
"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."
34
"The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know."
34
"There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance."
33
"Possibilities...in the closet...itching...to break out...but afraid of...the fallout."
33
"I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
33
"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."
32
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
31
"I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case."
30
"They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it."
30
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."
30
"Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation."
29
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
29
"The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it."
29
"No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything."
29
"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."
28
"The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past."
27
"In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked."
26
"Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again."
26
"Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden."
26
"This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility."
26
"As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present."
25
"The world of possibilities exists in any situation."
22
"In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one."
22
"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen."
21
"It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever."
21
"Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything."
20
"It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility."
20
"In this beautiful world anything is Possible, but only when we Believe wholeheartedly and try!"
19
"We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves."
18
"Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible."
17
"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."
15
"In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all."
15
"4 Hours, 48 Minutes and 19 Seconds here the point is that everything is possible."
14
"You stare at your dream from a distance, longing, sighing, seeing what you deem is a warning of IMPOSSIBLE. But if you would squint real hard you would see the truth; the sign correctly reads 'I'M POSSIBLE."
14
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
14
bottom of page