Quotations
Quotes:
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
View quotes by Tony Blair
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
View quotes by James Baldwin
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
View quotes by Baron Pierre De Coubertin
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
View quotes by Samuel Smiles
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
View quotes by Ayn Rand
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
View quotes by Golda Meir
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
I just don't think that will happen, I don't think we'll bat for long enough, to start with, for that to happen in this series. [on the possibility of Hayden reclaiming the world record for most test runs in an innings]
View quotes by Ricky Ponting
I think there's a possibility that Phoebe may have some of my dancing genes - she points her toes when she is being fed. [Talking about her daughter]
View quotes by Darcey Bussell
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
View quotes by Vance Packard
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
View quotes by Alice Walker
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
View quotes by Franz Kafka
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.
View quotes by Patrick Blackett
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.
View quotes by Allan Border
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.
View quotes by Angela Carter
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