However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
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 ~
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 ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon.
~By Alain Fournier ~
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 ~
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
~By Shunryu Suzuki ~
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 ~
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
~By Thomas Browne ~
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
~By Placido Domingo ~
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
~By Anne Rice ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
~By Fay Godwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
~By Bishop Robert South ~
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
~By Alfred Stieglitz ~
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
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 future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
~By John Sculley ~
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
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 ~
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
~By Bill Frisell ~
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
~By Sydney Smith ~
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
~By Ray Charles ~
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
~By Iain Banks ~
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 ~
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~By Franz Kafka ~
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
~By Evan Parker ~
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 ~
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
~By Patrick Troughton ~
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 ~
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
~By Matthew Fox ~
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 ~
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 ~
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
~By John Moody ~
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
~By Karen Allen ~
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 ~
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
~By George Saintsbury ~
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
~By Peter Sotos ~
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
~By Leon Kass ~
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
~By Charles Wesley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
~By Harriet Van Horne ~
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
~By William Greider ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
~By Joel Gretsch ~
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 ~
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
~By Conrad Hall ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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