POSSIBILITY QUOTES
quotations about possibility
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
CHARLES DICKENS
David Copperfield
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Dance, Dance, Dance
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Profiles of the Future
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Polite Poison Counter", Hand-Made Fables
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The Middle Ground
Only the impossible is worth the effort.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Powerbook
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
EMIL CIORAN
A Short History of Decay
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
De veritatibus primis
Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
CHARLES SCHWAB
Leaders of Men: Or, Types and Principles of Success
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Change starts with you. Change starts here. Together, we are possibility.
LINDA MOYER
"Possibility is in your hands", Brant News, November 5, 2015
I believe all that is possible is striving to come into being; and all that can will, if man helps.
ANDRÉ GIDE
The Fruits of the Earth
When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Voices
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Anti-Christ
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
I dwell in possibility --
A fairer House than Prose --
More numerous of Windows --
Superior -- for Doors --
Of Chambers as the Cedars --
Impregnable of Eye --
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky --
EMILY DICKINSON
"I Dwell in Possibility"
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
ROBERT GODDARD
attributed, The Early Years: Goddard Space Flight Center