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Possibility Quotes - Page 6

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker
God, Experience, Possibility

The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.

Tertullian
States, Impossibility

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Philip K. Dick
Tragedy, Possibility, Midst

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Paulo Coelho
Real, Guilt, Possibility

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

Marina Keegan
Possibility, Ends, Loses
Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Joe Abercrombie
Mind, Possibility, States
Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

Charles Tart
Insanity, Tragedy, Possibility

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Alain Badiou
Ethics, Possibility, Process
Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.16, Verso

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Michelangelo Antonioni
Lying, Cinema, Possibility
"Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Mario Testino
Opportunity, Curiosity, Possibility
"Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

David Levithan
Matter, Possibility, Used
David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.

Chris Guillebeau
Thinking, Choices, Possibility
Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.8, Penguin

Live the rest of your life in possibility

Benjamin Zander
Rest Of Your Life, Possibility

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

Sonia Sotomayor
Dream, Possibility, Knows

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

Ralph Ellison
World, Possibility, Ifs
Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.181, Vintage

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi
Discovery, Possibility, Made
Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

Tahereh Mafi
Hands, Pockets, Possibility
Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.50, Harper Collins

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Michael Eisner
Fear Of Failure, Possibility, Conditions

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

Jeff Galloway
Competition, Marathon, Possibility

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

Diana Vreeland
Girl, Emotion, Possibility

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson
Prayer, Revival, Possibility

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Anna Torv
Fiction, Possibility, Endless Possibilities
"‘Fringe’ Friday: Chatting with Saturn Award winner Anna Torv". Interview with Andrew Hanson, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 24, 2011.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

Viola Spolin
Mind, Intuition, Possibility
Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.14, Northwestern University Press

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag
Liberty, Expansion, Possibility
Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.118, Penguin UK

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

Soren Kierkegaard
Risk, Trying, Impossibility

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