#possibility

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

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#cannot #confident #defeat #deprived #fear

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #faith #holocaust #our #possibility

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#complicated #genius #make #might #missing

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels