Possibility Quotes
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Possible Quotes
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Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
William MacNeile Dixon
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.
Sun Tzu
Subject: Victory QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick M. S. Blackett
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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
Georg Cantor
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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civili...
Margaret Mead
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.
Maya Angelou
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
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The mere thought hadn`t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Douglas Adams
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it`s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle
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I`ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I`m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Also everyone`s hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You`re not doing it for the money; you`re not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
Kyra Sedgwick
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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
William Baldwin
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I am not a fortune teller. I would like to be judged for my work, and not for my life. If there is any possibility of changing your destiny, it may be only in your creative life, certainly not in your life, period.
Roman Polanski
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I know writers who claim not to read their notices, or not to be hurt by the bad ones if they do, and I actually believe two of these individuals. I`m one of the other kind - I obsess over the possibility of bad reviews and brood over them when they come....
Stephen King
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I don`t like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don`t mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I`m open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
Sophie Okonedo
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A wonderful thing about acting is that there`s continually the possibility of that huge brass ring out there, like a degenerate gambler making a hit. You work hard and maybe that slick, glittering ring is sticking to your palm.
Patrick Kilpatrick
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To be in the hands of an auteur like [Andrei Tarkovsky], that would be just brilliant. But I don`t know if those kind of films can ever be made any more. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningl...
Emily Mortimer
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[Regarding the possibility of marriage with her current beau and father of her child, Brad Pitt] We have both been married before so it`s not marriage that necessarily kept some people together.
Angelina Jolie
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[On her reaction to hearing about RoboCop 2 (1990)]: "I suppose this was the first thing that made me think about making a sequel, because they used to say "well, she is going to return as a robot..." I never thought that as a real possibility, because ev...
Nancy Allen
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I don`t waste money but I have a pleasant level of life. I have the possibility to live in Paris, in quarter I like. I have a house.
Virginie Ledoyen
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The West has always been the epicenter of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It`s to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. We all keep moving toward the sun, wishing to get the last ray of hope ...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I would love to play a vampire because they are so sexual. And they are the dark side of human thought. What a possibility to play someone that can see what your heart is doing, feel the blood running through your veins, know what you are thinking, and ha...
Adrian Paul
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[On the death of "Diff`rent Strokes" (1978) co-star Dana Plato] "It`s very unfortunate that Dana is no longer with us - she was a wonderful woman, but her death was a welcome, though sad piece of closure to "Diff`rent Strokes". The possibility of a reunio...
Gary Coleman
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(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I read a lot of correspondence dating from that period. Decent middle-class lives with wives and children were abandoned to pursue this elusive possibility. They were bank clerks and shi...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.
Genevieve Cortese
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After I had my first child, I stopped breastfeeding early because I had been told that there was a possibility that I might star in "The Thorn Birds" (1983) (mini), which I wanted more than life itself. I went to do the screen test and everything went gre...
Jane Seymour
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As an actor there`s no autonomy, unless you`re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben Kingsley
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(On Live Aid (1985) (TV)) That day changed my life and started me on this incredible adventure, that is the possibility that our generation could be remembered for something other than the Internet ... the first generation to eradicate extreme poverty ......
Bono
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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memo...
Luis Bunuel
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