#possibility

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so. ↗

— Hans Blix

#abroad #after #bring #come #cyprus

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#being #concerns #constitutes #first #genetic

I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#ever #get #get married #i #married

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#dry #experience #getting #more #much

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#ceases #conception #god #his #itself

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#destruction #distant #earth #fight #future