Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walker Percy

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Milan Kundera

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Octavio Paz

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Oprah Winfrey

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Alan Shearer

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Claire Messud

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Amy Poehler

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Albert Einstein

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Robert Kirkman

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

Ray Comfort

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

Robert Holden

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

Thomas Carlyle

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.

Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Steven Pinker

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Michael Douglas

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Matthew Lewis

I'm very much open to the possibilities.

Maya Angelou

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

Nicolas Cage

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

Mike McGavick

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

Michel Foucault

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

Evelyn Underhill

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

George McGovern

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

Flannery O'Connor

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Jack Kornfield

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Henry David Thoreau

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Iain Banks

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

David Levithan

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.