Best may & possibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

Knows May Happiness Joy Rooms Teaching Possibility Wall Laughter Window Christmas Holiday Holiday Season Best Holiday Your Wall Holiday Spirit Great Holiday

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.”

“The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.”

Ifs Thinking Want May Said Would Be Possibility Republican Offers Majority Chairs Want Me Committees Maine

Author:Angus King

“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.”

Men World May Children Jobs Order Chance Cases Knowing Doubt Sacrifice Possibility Competition Sake Chosen Confusion Suits Operations Vulnerability Upbringing Exclusion Bleak

Author:Anna Ford

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.”

Men Believe May Doe Possibility He Man

Author:Kin Hubbard

“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”

Wells May Mean Reason Government Sin Answers Possibility Despair Pressure Punishment Indifference Resignation

Author:Elie Wiesel

“There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.”

Wells May Ability Player Generations Possibility One Day Statistics Dread Future Generation

Author:Allan Border

“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.”

Thinking May Children Matter Happens Fear Difficult Emotion Possibility Terrible Our Children Raised Your Children Dominant Probability

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.”

Thinking Knows May Grace Possibility Willing Available Open Minded

Book:Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.”

“Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.”

Wells May Age Views Possibility Promise And Love Filled Aging Simplicity Well Being Atmosphere Hardship Allowing Sage Gears Precious Gifts Vaults

Book:Freedoms After 50

Source: Freedoms After 50

“The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.”

May Pain Easy Sound Possibility Enlightenment Illusion Opposites Staying Joyful Harsh Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.”

Should May Littles Done Might Too Much Effects Possibility Seeking Accomplished Hereafter Repose

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.”

May Past Courses Given Lines Possibility Limits Fixed Standing Out Initials

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.”

Knows May Long Moments Lasts Language Possibility Willing Equal Doctors Currents Combination Phrases English Language Disagreeable Narrow-minded

Book:Love Conquers All

Source: Love Conquers All

“Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.”

May Said Might Imagination Possibility Position Degrees Enormous Certainty Vancouver

Author:Homer

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