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Possibility Quotes
"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."
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"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."
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"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!"
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"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."
30
"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."
29
"There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered."
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"The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know."
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"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."
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"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."
27
"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."
27
"There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance."
27
"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."
26
"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."
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"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."
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"I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
26
"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."
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"Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time."
25
"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."
24
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
24
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
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"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."
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"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."
23
"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."
23
"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."
22
"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."
22
"No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything."
22
"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."
21
"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."
21
"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."
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"Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden."
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"Possibilities...in the closet...itching...to break out...but afraid of...the fallout."
20
"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."
19
"The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it."
19
"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."
16
"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."
15
"It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility."
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"The world of possibilities exists in any situation."
14
"In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one."
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"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."
12
"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."
10
"We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves."
10
"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."
9
"Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible."
9
"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."
9
"My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the 'possible,' while God is inviting me to the forefront of the 'impossible."
9
"Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise."
8
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
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"Only if you are possible, everything will be possible."
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