Possibility Quotes - Page 25

Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

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.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.