Possibility Quotes

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.
Brendan Gleeson

Someone, Ourselves, Expect

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
A. B. Yehoshua

Revenge, Anyone, Blood

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
Godfried Danneels

Time, Freedom, Done

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro

Good, God, Human

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Mortimer Zuckerman

Money, Today, May

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew

Life, Gone, Enjoyment

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
Anthony Braxton

Music, Greatest, Working

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.
Andrea Mitchell

Woman, Thought, Again

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
Bob Hoskins

Kids, Necessity, Rely

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

True, Humanity, Everything

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
William Baldwin

Long, Before, Actor

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
Denis Norden

Funny, Person, May

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
Christie Brinkley

Failure, After, Try

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.
Craig T. Nelson

After, Sure, Story

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
Louis Finkelstein

Success, Best, Mean

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
Jackie Weaver

Important, Career, Far

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
Alexander Kluge

Judge, Means, Present

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson

Society, Human, Conceive

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
Hans Bender

Fashion, Same, Cannot

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
Gianni Agnelli

Technology, Before, Production

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
Chris Cannon

Integrity, Broken, Nation

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.
Alexander Osterwalder

Business, Successful, Different

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
Bob Barker

Strong, Feeling, Working

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
William H. Wharton

Knowledge, Lives, Knows

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
Elizabeth Dole

Life, Mind, True

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
David Ives

Great, Writing, Challenge

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
Paul Goldberger

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
Frank Knight

Respect, Future, Past

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
Alberto Tomba

Emotional, Start, Culture

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
Kenneth Burke

Sense, Idea, Fall

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