#possibility

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#believe #free #human #inquiry #most

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#family #just #losing #me #more

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#corner #dreams #girlfriend #great #i

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#believe #conditions #i #i believe #i believe that

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#anybody #fun #go #go for it #guitar

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#always #dreamt #exposure #i #make

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#always #any #because #crying #deal

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#am #beginning #being #fifty #formulated