POSSIBILITY QUOTES
quotations about possibility
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
- The attempt
- Is all the wedge that splits its knotty way
- Betwixt the impossible and possible.
ALICE CARY, "The Maiden of Tlalscala"
DAWN! thou hast every possibility of life! What canst thou not reveal to man in thy flaming sky? Enough thou sayest, to recreate a world of men. Blind are we. How many of us read thy words aright? We pass them by, cold letters, divining not the fire of eternal life behind them burning. Dawn, thy opportunity is full! We, alas, know not the meaning of thy gorgeous page. Dazed we watch thy letters pale; cold embers, left upon the sky; Life's opportunity flickering into naught.
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT, "Arizona"
Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Brisingr
Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence."
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Table-Talk
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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