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Possibilities Quotes (page 58)

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way. C. S. Lewis
Milan Kundera quote: "But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer..."
But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything. Milan Kundera
John Irving quote: "She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to..."
She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all. John Irving
I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike. David Sedaris
Charlotte Bronte quote: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Charlotte Bronte
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress. John Stuart Mill
Russell Brand quote: "I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender..."
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! Russell Brand
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart. J. K. Rowling
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum
Victor Hugo quote: "No corruption is possible with the diamond."
No corruption is possible with the diamond. Victor Hugo
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting. Allan Sherman
He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible. Michael Ondaatje
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. John Stuart Mill
How is it possible for one to own the stars?"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly."I don't know. To nobody. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never. Samuel Beckett

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