What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.
~By John Guare ~
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
~By Joel Gretsch ~
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.
~By Artur Davis ~
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~By Henry James ~
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
~By Octavia Butler ~
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
~By Dorothee Solle ~
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
~By Robert Musil ~
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
~By Graham Nelson ~
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
~By William Wiley ~
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.
~By John Lennon ~
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
~By Derrick Jensen ~
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
~By Francis William Aston ~
As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
~By Susan Sontag ~
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
~By Ray Charles ~
We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
~By Leon Kass ~
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
~By James Baldwin ~
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
~By Queen Victoria ~
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
~By Frank Pittman ~
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~By Franz Kafka ~
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
~By John Sculley ~
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
~By Barry White ~
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
~By Jasper Johns ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
~By Jack Bowman ~
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
~By Albert Claude ~
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
~By Joe Slovo ~
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
~By Wilfrid Sheed ~
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.
~By Ralph W. Trine ~
I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
~By Craig Ferguson ~
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
~By Alvar Aalto ~
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
~By George Saintsbury ~
And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~By Aristotle ~
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
~By Elena Kagan ~
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
~By Ralph Marston ~
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
~By Tim O'Reilly ~
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.
~By Michael Shanks ~
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~By Jean Houston ~
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
~By Barack Obama ~
I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
~By Peter Sotos ~
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
~By Albert Einstein ~
In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
~By David F. Houston ~
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
~By Anne Rice ~
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
~By Jasper Johns ~
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
~By Robert Musil ~
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
~By Eda J. Le Shan ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
~By Steve Lacy ~
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
~By John Moody ~
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
~By Bill Laswell ~
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
~By Graham Greene ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
~By Paul Valery ~
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
~By Emma Goldman ~
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
~By Frank Zappa ~
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
~By Mark Haddon ~
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
~By Conrad Hall ~
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~By Thomas Paine ~
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