#possibility

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#because #borders #broken #cities #coming

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#almost #any #britain #i #inconceivable

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#busting #dark #except #i #into

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#boundless #busy #complete #creativity #devotion

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#me #now #possibility #pregnant #right

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#dwell #own #path #possibility #privilege