Quotes by Authors - Page 239

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.
Richard Ford
Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.
Jodi Picoult
Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.
Steve Maraboli
As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.
Francine Pascal
It's like I am glimpsing the possibility of living in a different way. I wonder whether it would be an easier life - less choked with misunderstandings and disappointment.
Chrissie Perry
It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...
Sylvain Tesson
Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.
Lysa TerKeurst
There's also a possibility that the landlord is in there right now, wearing women's undergarments. Or a drug addict is inside stealing jewelry.Or a boatload of recent Chinese immigrants without a television watching Russia play Finland in hockey and placing bets over beer. You have no idea what's behind that door. You can't just pick the options within your field of vision. Reality comes from everywhere. At best, you can narrow down the likelihoods. But in the end, it's not a matter of deduction. It's a matter of fact. One bullet will kill you if you're stupid or unlucky. So at least don't be stupid
Derek B. Miller
The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise of something more to come.
Jennifer E. Smith
I believe in unlimited possibilities.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Unlimited possibilities: Hope
Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in a world of possibilities.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
Rachel Kushner
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
Sara Sheridan
We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
Marina Keegan
Every meaningful success I have accomplished was made possible by love.
Bryant McGill
Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Possibilities lies in a daring dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?
Yoon Ha Lee
Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?
Jennifer E. Smith
A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
Jules Verne
Hope is when against all odds a tiny flame keeps burning for the possibility.
Tilicia Haridat
Fear is the possibility of freedom.
Peter Stamm
Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.
Wendell Berry
Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.
Tony Curl
Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle
Sunday Adelaja
Where there's possibility there is also hope.
Gareth P. Jones
Ensuring possibility is kept alive is imperative.
Steven Redhead
If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.
Barry Schwartz
You know not what you are capable of doing; you cannot sound the ocean of thought within you. You must labor, keep at it, and dig deep and long before you will begin to realize much. Be inactive - mourn because you were not created a giant in intellect, and you will die a fool.
L.G. Abell
A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.
Mark Lawrence
A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.
Carol Shields
The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born.
Auliq-Ice
If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility.
Deyth Banger
In life and love, there are no impossibilities.
Camille Lucy
Cooties, doesn't show possibility shows impossibility.
Deyth Banger
There is possibility of making you suffer even and pain. There is a way!
Deyth Banger
Being nice is state of "Probability", not a state of "possibility".
Deyth Banger
Listen, Sam, and everyone, you need to know something so it won’t freak you out: Pack Leader can speak. I mean, human words. Like Smart-Girl Barbie there was saying, he’s some kind of mutant or whatever. I know you think I’m probably crazy.”She had Hermit Jim’s tin cup now and used it to scoop up another helping of wonderful, wonderful pudding. Blondie—Astrid—was opening a can of fruit cocktail.“What do you know about the FAYZ?” Astrid asked.Lana stopped eating and stared at her. “The what?”Astrid shrugged and looked embarrassed. “That’s what people are calling it. The Fallout Alley Youth Zone. FAYZ.”“What does that mean?”“Have you seen the barrier?”She nodded. “Oh, yeah. I’ve seen the barrier. I touched the barrier, which, by the way, is not a good idea.”Sam said, “As far as we can tell, it goes clear around in a big circle. Or maybe a sphere. We think the center is the power plant. It seems like a ten-mile radius from there, you know, twenty miles across.”“Circumference of 62.83 miles, with an area of 314.159 square miles,” Astrid said.“Point 159,” Quinn echoed from his corner. “That’s important.”“It’s basically pi,” Astrid said. “You know, 3.14159265…. Okay, I’ll stop.”Lana hadn’t stopped being hungry. She took a scoop of the fruit cocktail. “Sam, you think the power plant caused it?”Sam shrugged, and then he hesitated, surprised. Lana guessed that he felt no pain in his shoulder. “No one knows. All of a sudden every single person over the age of fourteen disappears and there’s this barrier and people…animals…”Lana slowly absorbed this new information. “You mean all the adults? They’re gone?”“Poof,” Quinn said. “They ditched. They blinked out. They vacated. They took the off-ramp. They cut a hole. They emigrated. Adults and teenagers. Nothing left but kids.”“I’ve done all I can to strengthen the door,” Edilio announced. “But all I have is nails. Someone can break it in eventually.”“Maybe they didn’t all ditch,” Lana said. “Maybe we did.”Astrid said, “That’s definitely one of the possibilities, not that it makes any real difference. It’s effectively the same thing.
Michael Grant
It's not so easy... it's not possible.
Deyth Banger
It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.
Lorna Jane Cook
If not careful... there is possibility getting spoiled.
Deyth Banger
I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility.
Deyth Banger
It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
Gregory Maguire
My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.
Ashley Poston
All things lie dark in possibility.
William Saroyan
As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92)
Bob Burg and John David Mann
The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth's part in life, and a day moth's at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic. He flew vigorously to one corner of his compartment, and, after waiting there a second, flew across to the other. What remained for him but to fly to a third corner and then to a fourth? That was all he could do, in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far-off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea. What he could do he did.
Virginia Woolf
Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov
Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?
Brian Evenson
Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.
Ashly Lorenzana
A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Paulo Coelho
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
Salman Rushdie
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
Mark Twain
Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.- Friar Tuck
Stephen R. Lawhead
He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face.
Helen Simonson
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
Haruki Murakami
Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).
Christopher Hitchens
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.
Rick Moody