#possibility

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

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#darkest #doctor #end #get #hard

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

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#call #confusion #dignity #even #give

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

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#back #basically #came #capability #certainly

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early. ↗

— George McGovern

#i #least #possibility #too

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

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