#possibility

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#little #possibility #without #witty

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#great #guide #idea #ideal #includes

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#dignity #divinity #every #life #mind

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#female #limits #new #possibility #still

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

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#come #conceive #human #human imagination #human society

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#active #any #back #became #because

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ↗

— Richard Gere

#possibility #save #saving #sisters #tibet

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