#possibility

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

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#dream #enlarged #great #great hope #hope

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

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#continued #convinced #day #field #him

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#being #captured #felt #know #like

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

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#forth #kennedy #look #many #me

They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#air time #call #corporate #here #i