#possibility

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appears #belief #dangerous #decisive #human

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

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

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. ↗

— Robert Musil

#must #possibility #reality #sense

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism

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

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#even #genes #most #possibility #reflect