Possibilities Quotes (page 79)

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• vine
• sometimes
• those

Those who too patiently serve as props sometimes underrate the possibilities of the vine. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• accorded
• accord
• accordingly

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. V. S. Naipaul

• god
• him
• manly

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.... Madeleine L'Engle

• love
• life
• strength

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. Simone de Beauvoir

• ignorance
• knowledge
• chance

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. John Steinbeck

• education
• people
• question

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. Joseph Heller

• just
• impossibilities
• impossibility

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. Dan Brown

• thinking
• words
• everyday

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. George Orwell

• bridge
• metaphoric
• meets

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor. Jeanette Winterson

• world
• good
• growing old

Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they... Terry Prachett

• men
• philosophical
• dead

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• help
• saying
• helpful

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. Bill Bryson

• new
• life
• take time

Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to... C. S. Lewis

• daily
• growing up
• clouds

Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible. John Crowley

• real
• question
• mind

The question that lay before me, and I had so far failed to answer, was the way these connections might best be expressed. My mind was filled with possibilities but I had no real sense of how all that I knew was arrayed and dispersed; no sense of the pattern. Clive Barker