#possibility

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#being #comfortable #definitely #good #i

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. ↗

— Dale Dauten

#enough #failure #learn #possibility #reverence

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. ↗

— Geena Davis

#free #free world #impossibility #leader #muslim

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#critically #education #grants #higher #higher education

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#either #jesus #jesus christ #john #john kerry

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#now #one-party #politics #possibility #right

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#banality #endless #erected #order #overcome

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#conceiving #either #experience #fact #genuine

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #before #behind #catching