Possibility Quotes - Page 20

• Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fighting, Expression

  "Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices". www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

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• The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

  Manuel de Falla

  Guitar, Instruments

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• The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Betrayal, War, Past

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• Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Ambition, Atheism

  Julian Baggini (2003). “Atheism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

  Grace Hartigan

  Beautiful, Challenges, Transformation

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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

  David Zindell

  Single Mom, Perfect, Infinite

  "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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• We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

  Ishmael Beah

  Thinking, Glimpse, Radiance

  "The Brilliance of Ishmael Beah" by Nina Sankovitch, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.

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• However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

  Steven Chu

  Parent, United States, Married

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

  George Eastman

  Giving, Sound, Dimes

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• Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

  Norman O. Brown

  Fashion, Humanity, Survival

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.305, Wesleyan University Press

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• I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Fire, Long

  Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.

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• I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

  Danny Wallace

  Love You, Saying Yes, World

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

  Maren Jensen

  Adventure, Character, Independent

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• Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

  Cody Horn

  Acting, Hollywood, Grew Up

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

  Maggie Scarf

  Self, Doe, Want

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

  Del Close

  Laughter, Tragedy, Midst

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• Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Satan, Regeneration

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.542, Discovery House

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• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shopping

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• North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Morning, Clothes

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

  William H. Wharton

  Law, Property, Knows

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• There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.

  John Peel

  Lying, Water, Interesting

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• What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

  John Guare

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Thinking, Trying, Answers

  "Exploring Supernovae Leads To Physics Nobel Prize". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 14, 2011.

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