"Failure? The possibilities do not exist."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations."
"The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."
"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."
"There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss."
"The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities."
"This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form."
"Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?"
"What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future."
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
"as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape."
"Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man."
"Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."
"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."
"When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)"
"Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities."
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
"If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities."
"Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please"