Quotes with possibility

Quotes 21 till 40 of 80.

  • Jeanette Winterson I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
    (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Richardson I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Robert H. Schuller If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Margaret Mead If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • B. Zander In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
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  • Bjarke Ingels In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Alberto Tomba 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.
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • George Gurdjieff Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • Bob Hoskins 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
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Georges Bataille Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Amelia Earhart Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Bobby Jindal On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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