#possibility

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#criminals #ever #horizon #justice #over

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#branch #failure #goals #high #high goals

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#excusing #fact #hurricane #i #kind

Impossibility is a dictionary word. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#impossibility #word

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

#china #decided #family #grew #however

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. ↗

— Francis Crick

#ambiguous #amino #amino acid #certainly #code

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#enjoyment #gone #instantly #life #possibility

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#considered #faced #first #going #good

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#being #irrelevant #may #model #only

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure