Possibility Quotes - Page 37

• Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Deployment, Weapons, Nuclear

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Blessing, People, Tragedy

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• I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Struggle, Imagination, Survival

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• I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

  H. G. Wells

  Expectations, Limits, Dawn

  "Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"".

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• It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Too Much, Humans

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• Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, Adventure

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• The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

  Aberjhani

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fighting, Progress, Trying

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.

  Diriye Osman

  Promise, Trying, Dresses

  "Is Dislocation a Permanent State?" by Diriye Osman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Animal, Forget, Moments

  T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.84, Weiser Books

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

  Milan Kundera

  Existence, Acquire, New Possibilities

  "Slowness". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  Arnold Gehlen

  Art, Consistency, Style

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• It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Average, Ideas

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

  Katherine Dunn

  Athlete, Training, Female

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Fighting, Artist, Issues

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• I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

  Hans Zimmer

  Writing, Feelings, Want

  "Composer Hans Zimmer Speaks Out Against 'Interstellar' Sound Critics" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2014.

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• May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Light, Shining, Darkness

  FaceBook post by T. Thorn Coyle from Dec 13, 2011

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Finals, Realization

  "Hawthorne — The Painter; An Appreciation". Essay by Hans Hofmann, 1952.

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• Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

  Philip Treacy

  Dream, Giving, Hats

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• I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Islands, People, Imagination

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  People, Befriending, Belief

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• The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

  Atul Gawande

  Opportunity, Medicine, Way

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.251, Profile Books

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• A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Historical, Ethics

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