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  • Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

    Children   Giving   Way  
  • When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

  • Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

    Art   Writing   Infinite  
  • The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

    Moon   Men   Discipline  
    Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.372, Open Road Media
  • Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

  • If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

    Life   Success   Wine  
    Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”
  • Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

    "Economic Growth". www.econlib.org.
  • Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

    Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
  • I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

    Confused   Ideas   Done  
    Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

    Death   Believe   Tests  
    Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics
  • I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

  • This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

  • I'm a bit skeptical about the possibilities for resistant fiction, and even more despondent over the potential for politically engaged writing to do much of anything outside the dominant means of production and distribution.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.

    Blow   Soul   Humanity  
  • 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.

  • For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

  • From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.

    Pms   Fertility   Problem  
  • Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

  • We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.

    Mean   Thinking   Long  
  • Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

    "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
  • In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.

    Winning   Past   Giving  
    Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press
  • Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

  • Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.

    Brother   Men   White  
  • As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

    War   Two   World  
  • An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

  • Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

    Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.68, University of Chicago Press
  • Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

    Pride   People   Want  
    "Yes we can: Labour election campaign to adapt Barack Obama's blueprint" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
  • So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

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