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It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
The Guns N' Roses reunion didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.
I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.
If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.
The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.
The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
When the script of 'Nine' came along, I saw that there's a possibility of making something that is genuinely new and entertaining at the same time.
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.
Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al Qaeda.
The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's lifetime is a possibility.
I was very excited about the possibility of playing for Spurs and in England. I would like to thank the club for their efforts in trying to sign me.
Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.
A team that can build a stronger car, a stronger working environment. A team that has the possibility to create something, that would be interesting.
If there is a possibility within a film to have a song in the music score that adds a little bit of zing to the music album, then why not utilise it?
Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That's OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it's not guaranteed.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.
Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.
When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.
Because of my fighting for LGBT rights, I have seen the possibility of change. And that gives me heart to believe that it is possible to effect change.
We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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.
it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
When I started on YouTube, no one talked about getting famous on the Internet or getting discovered on YouTube. I didn't even know it was a possibility.
That was very much a possibility with doing the movie for 'The Inbetweeners'. We didn't know if it was going to work or if people were going to like it.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.
If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.