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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
~By John Guare ~
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 ~
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
~By Charles Wesley ~
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
~By Ray Charles ~
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
~By Charles W. Chesnutt ~
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
~By Graham Greene ~
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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 ~
To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
~By Peter Sotos ~
The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
~By Michelle Williams ~
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
~By Arthur Rock ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
~By Patrick Troughton ~
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
~By Anne Rice ~
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
~By Richard Ernst ~
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 ~
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
~By Susan Sontag ~
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
~By Thomas Browne ~
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 ~
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~By Franz Kafka ~
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~By Robert Collier ~
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
~By John Sculley ~
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 only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
~By Les Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
~By Eda J. Le Shan ~
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
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 ~
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 ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
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 ~
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
~By Queen Victoria ~
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
~By Robert Musil ~
Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
~By Aristotle ~
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
~By Ken Burns ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
~By Fay Godwin ~
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
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 ~
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 ~
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
~By Jim Morrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
~By William Greider ~
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 ~
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 ~
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
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 ~
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~By Thomas Paine ~
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